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Unspoken Costs: Isolation, Incarceration, and the Prison Telecommunications Industry
“Everything about being incarcerated is really expensive. Too expensive…. They find every way to punish you.”
Twin Pandemics: An Autopsy of the Current Moment
How did we become so anesthetized to the deaths and suffering of the people at society’s margins?
Where is the GOP Going?
The GOP gains in the House and their continued Senatorial strength show a new path for the Republican Party. This poses problems for the liberal left and the libertarian right who have anticipated the electoral collapse of the Republican Party.
It’s the End of the World as We Know it (and Amazon Feels Not-so-Fine)
Establishing a regulatory framework around Amazon that does not address the ability of Amazon to use its power to influence the government would quite possibly take us the way of Dr. Frankenstein. The government’s place is not to run this market but rather to protect the people in it.
“Another Justice”
In 15 years on the bench, Chief Justice John Roberts has managed to gradually strike at the heart of the last century of American jurisprudence and rescue the 19th century court.
American Division Transcends the 2020 Election
Through all the happiness around Biden’s electoral win, Americans have to realize Trump’s presidency reveals a deeper division among Americans that Biden simply won’t be able to fix.
TMI?: Amazon’s Journey Through the World of Big Data
Nowhere in this story does Amazon enhance consumer welfare; it neither offers a better product to consumers nor a better service to other merchants. The company takes the data it gets from the small businesses it hosts and weaponizes that data against them.
On the Most Disrespected Person in America
In 1962, human rights activist Malcolm X expressed the plight of being a Black woman as that of the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected American. 58 years later, the same sentiments unfortunately remain all too familiar.