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In the fall of 1970, the Black feminist poet, teacher, and activist June Jordan traveled to Italy as a Rome Prize recipient in the category of Environmental Design ( We’re On 153).1 She was awarded the prize for work that grew out of her collaboration with the architect R. Buckminster Fuller. Jordan’s connection with Fuller began in 1964, when Jord... See more

“Harlem Will Widen from River to River”: Environmental Justice and ...

“Predatory inclusion” is what historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls it in her book Race for Profit, describing the long-standing American tradition of incorporating marginalized people into housing and financial schemes through bad deals when they are denied good ones. The exclusion of poor people from traditional banking and credit systems has f

Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America

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Charles Duhigg • Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity

In America, losing a job means making a hundred phone calls to a state unemployment-insurance system. Getting hit by a car means becoming your own hospital-billing expert. Having a disability means launching into a Jarndyce v. Jarndyce–type legal battle. Needing help to feed a toddler means filling out a novel-length application for aid.

The Atlantic • The Time Tax

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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex

The protected overmatched, overran, and paralyzed the government.

Steven Brill • Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

the study of megapolitics. In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate,

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

As the number of neighborhood health centers grew, their newfound visibility drew criticism from mainstream medicine.

Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

Our concierge was also a significant factor in the unusually early success of Four Seasons Washington: