Nobody Wants This

Being a consumer in the US sucks.

Costs of War's Catherine Lutz and I wrote for The Nation on the increasing militarization of K-12 school security: "Electric-shock gloves used on students in Nebraska are the latest sign of how policing, surveillance, and military technology have entered…

If you’re looking for inspiration in the fight against authoritarianism in the US, you might want to talk to parents of school-age children — because a bunch of them are taking on the tech oligarchs and notching wins.

The alarm rings and in half-sleep I call out to the coffee maker.

Unless you seek out education news, it’s probably been a while since you’ve heard about the teacher shortage.

With grassroots resistance to AI data centers growing, Trump last week urged localities to embrace them.

Recounting their first trips to Japan, Americans tend to start on the toilet.

At 17, I drove to a nearby city with my boyfriend to a Planned Parenthood so I could get on the pill.

Every so often, a news item hits all my pressure points at once and nearly knocks me out.

Weird scenes take place often in the Oval Office these days, but a healthcare event last month was a stand-out.

If you’ve heard anything regarding K-12 schools this week, it was probably about new research on the decade-long struggle to improve scores on standardized tests.

Politicians know it well: Gas prices can sway elections.

I wanted to ignore the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (again) this year.

It turns out a lot of Americans aren’t keen on having giant data centers or prison camps in their communities.

On January 20, 2017, I waited for a train to DC for the Women’s March.

Costs of War's Catherine Lutz and I wrote for Common Dreams about how the enormous U.S. military budget helped bring us here: "Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy."

An ambitious project began with a moral panic, stoked early in the pandemic, about the nation’s schoolchildren.