As the Covid-19 pandemic tore across the globe in March 2020, schools across the country shut down. The goal was simple: to slow the spread of a virus that has now claimed over half a million lives in the U.S. alone. And although the end of January marked the close of...
Two Texas politicians this week told the people they govern just how little they care about us, even during a horrendous climate emergency. The first example was in the obscene tweet from Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, to his constituents: Far more...
This past week we’ve watched as large parts of the nation ground to a halt because of temperatures forty degrees below average and snow and ice not seen in decades. Texas has been particularly hard hit. The temperature went down to single digits. The storm and surge...
On Tuesday, February 16, a Fred Meyer grocery store in Portland, Oregon threw out a large amount of perishable food that could not be refrigerated properly due to a power outage caused by a winter storm. Local residents, seeing the food waste, gathered at the...
During the Industrial Revolution, from around 1821 onward, the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts recruited women from the surrounding rural countryside. The mill workers were mostly young women aged 15-30, who lived together in company boardinghouses. To the mill...
