Who Gets to Be an American?

I don’t want to shock anyone, but in the United States, Americans used to be allowed to own other people. Not in a bad employment contract kind of way—where your boss takes up all your time and underpays you—but in a literal I-own-your-body-and-can-do-whatever-I-want-with-it, including forcing you to have children that I can then sell to […]
They’re Ruining Homelessness!

They’ve been accused of ruining a lot lately—vaccines, the Constitution, birthright citizenship, immigration—but no one seems to be talking about how they’re ruining homelessness. Once, experiencing homelessness was something that primarily happened in larger cities. It was, in a grim way, a “special” thing that only certain places saw at scale. But thanks to Them, […]