Weekly E-book: The Cost of Freedom
After a fashion, our weekly e-book returns. This week we bring you a reason to count the cost of freedom.
Open for Business
Sarah Hinchliff Pearson looks at how platforms and creators build successful endeavors around open digital content.
For Abortion Providers, a Constant Barrage of Personalized Harassment
Shootings like the one at a Colorado clinic are rare. Stalking, hate mail, and intimidating protests are the daily reality. Nina Martin interviews David Cohen and co-author Krysten Connon about their book, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism.
Contradictions in the Whirlwind: The Refugees Crisis, Paris Attacks, Wars without End
Gary Corseri muses on the voice inside the whirlwind of globalization.
Happy Thanksgiving
From all of us to all of you.
Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy is Actually Longer Vacations
In a world without easy mechanisms to restore full employment, can working fewer hours help? Dean Baker writes.
The Problem of Black Unemployment: Racial Inequalities Persist Even Amongst the Unemployed
It’s no secret unemployment is higher for blacks than for whites. But it’s actually worse than that: blacks and whites have much different experiences of unemployment and the “social safety net.” Nick Buffie digs through the numbers for you.
Gathering Lesser Seattle
Within Seattle here circa 2015, there’s a cathartic struggle simmering between our city’s poignant past and the feral future that now beckons fiercely. Jeff Stevens further histories you.
Four Key Takeaways From Copyright Reform Committee’s Silicon Valley Listening Tour
The Copyright Reform Committee’s hearings in Silicon Valley gave citizens and lawmakers much to think about. Here are four of them. Parker Higgins reports.
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