Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
  • A Challenge to Amazon

    Any media outlet considering itself important has felt the need to report on the NYT’s article describing what’s it’s like working for Amazon. As the Title reveals—Inside Amazon: Wrestling Ideas in a Bruising Workplace—it isn’t a picnic, but a high pressure, competitive, even brutal environment. The instance that was so ugly to me was about…

  • Not Victims But Warriors

    David Kirp, a public policy professor at Berkeley, writes in a NYT op-ed about an anti-poverty program in Houston where they did something quite rarely done: They asked people in some neighborhoods with high poverty rate, what they needed. That he points out has not been

  • Matriculas

    In part of Texas birth certificates are denied children born in the U.S. if the parents can’t show some form of valid I.D.

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