Adam M. Sowards — Taking Bearings

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Economic Giants Drive Income Inequality

"Economic giants drive income inequality in a second Gilded Age," High Country News (November 27, 2019). Economic giants drive income inequality in a second Gilded Age - High Country NewsCan we look to history for reform ideas in the age of big tech robber barons?High Country NewsAdam

James Baldwin and the Duty of Education

In 1963, James Baldwin published “A Talk to Teachers” in Saturday Review. (When he gave the speech, Baldwin called it “The Negro Child--His Self-Image.”) As many of his essays did, this piece showed America as it was, not as it was imagined or mythologized. Sadly, his reminders remain relevant half