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  • Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America

    Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America1

    Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught

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  • Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime

    Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime2

    It was, Nzinga Terrell-Brown hoped, the beginning of her dream of becoming a teacher. In 2018, when she got a job as a teacher’s aide, her future looked bright. But a couple months in, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on?

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  • Yes, the Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not

    Yes, the Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not2

    The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone can see that virtually everything is getting more expensive, but fewer have noticed that many items are also getting smaller. On Wednesday the Associated Press ran an article under the headline “No, you’re not imagining it — package

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