How can universities engage in beneficial community development?
UMD's development plans would displace low-income residents.
Maryland’s minimum wage should be a living wage
Minimum wage workers should be paid enough to support themselves.
To choose the best candidate in 2020, we need to ask the right questions
What should we be asking the Democratic primary field?
Grad students are educators. UMD should stop overworking them.
UMD’s mistreatment of grad students is part of a national culture against educators.
Amazon HQ2 is bad news for D.C.
It'll drain government coffers and inflate housing prices.
DJ Durkin shouldn’t get $5.1 million on his way out
He presided over an abusive culture and should’ve been fired for cause.
UMD must cancel its contract with ICE
UMD can’t claim to care about diversity while taking money from ICE.
The Trump administration is already making costly mistakes
For long-term success, a right-wing demagogue needs to pick the right battles and compromise on fiscal issues. However, our president-elect may not do either.
Fantastic representation and where not to find it
J.K. Rowling keeps trying — and failing — to make 'Harry Potter' more diverse.
The movement against climate change cannot be anti-humanist
I went hiking in Shenandoah National Park to think about climate catastrophe.