social issues

What started with the popular “Wall Street vs Main Street” metaphor during the global financial crisis turned more recently into a war of words that put “the middle class” front-and-center in a fight where Republicans and Democrats alike…

I know that America, I know it very well. And I know exactly what it was thinking when the grand jury’s decision came down in Ferguson and the country erupted in protest and debate. I know because I grew up in Missouri, in the opposite…

2014 has seen a return of the prison debate in the US with new emphasis on issues ranging from racial disparity in the criminal justice system, to the ill effects of solitary confinement, as well as the death penalty, and the gray areas…

Nel 2013 il GEO Group, uno dei giganti mondiali delle carceri private con sede a Boca Raton, Florida, aveva quasi ottenuto che uno stadio fosse intitolato a proprio nome, quello della Florida Atlantic University. Una specie di fiore…

Racism, crime and poverty. These three issues are so intertwined and ingrained in the US that it often seems like there is no way to untangle the mess (created in relatively little time) responsible for a whole array of troubles so…