
Public housing is woven into the fabric of American history. Its policies have shaped generations of families and the communities they call home.
Public housing has often been associated with narratives of poverty, crime, and failure.

Mothers share the reality of blending careers with caregiving
The creative industries celebrate hustle stories, but for many moms there’s an unseen struggle: balancing parenting with pitching, nurturing ideas alongside children, and building careers while raising families.

“We met as activists, so when we play music together, we also play music for the environment, music for the planet, for saving water … and we are feminists”.
This week my friend and colleague, Emily Miles, and I were sharing weekend highlights.

'The role stories play in redesigning our systems is critical, and we all play a role in their telling.'
In exploring the root causes of our crises, this team found "humility and clarity in ancient wisdom." They offer this website as a gift, a tool, and a reference—a way to discuss the interconnected crises caused by an economic system that fails to prioritize people and the planet.

If women had been the storytellers throughout history our cultural narratives and power structures would be very different.
In this Zoom discussion she talks with Brené Brown about her latest book, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes.

'I’m an American, not an American’t.'
In this graphic novel economist, Bryan Caplan, presents a compelling case for open borders, envisioning a world where anyone can live anywhere, provided they follow local laws.

How should one face the possibility that one’s culture might collapse?
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story—up to a certain point.

'Americans have voted for a politics of fear, anger, and hatred, and those of us who oppose this politics are now trying to figure out how we can oppose it usefully.'
In November, 2016, Ursula Le Guin wrote a blog post in response to the election of Donald Trump as president.

If we think of lonely people as a public health crisis then their disease is now twice as prevalent as cancer and growing rapidly.
We have survived for so long because the environmental devastation we are experiencing today is an exception, not a human norm.

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.”
This month Macmillan published a new collection of the writings of David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World .

“What can I give in return for the gifts of the Earth?”
We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth, gifts we have neither earned nor paid for: air to breathe, nurturing rain, black soil, berries and honeybees, the tree that became this page, a bag of rice, and the exuberance of a field of goldenrod and asters at full bloom.

'Women have always been writing and advocating against patriarchy and misogyny.'
As to why Americans would vote for a convicted felon and rapist who said during his campaign that he would be a “dictator” on his first day in office, I agree with Heather Cox Richardson.

Just under a hundred years ago, the Greenwhich Village’s reputation for attracting iconoclastic, subversive and leftist writers began extending to its music scene.
As I was reminded repeatedly during the four years I spent researching and writing Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, the Village music scene hardly started (in the sixties); in fact, it went back even further than the stories I’d heard of Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' at the long-gone Sheridan Square club Café Society in the Thirties.

What do historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and our culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers?
“'Bohemia has always been 90% low rent, 10% dream,' wrote Brad Gooch in a prescient 1992 New York Magazine cover story about the budding arts community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

"The good thing about everything being so messed up is that no matter where you look there’s good work to be done.”
- Derek Jensen