by Leo Gerard | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work
“Steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal – not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But 2,000 graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh are voting this week on whether to...
by Miles Mogulescu | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Politics
Hillary Clinton, with her focus group-tested moderation, may have failed to break the glass ceiling. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with her fearlessness, outspokenness, and mastery of social media has broken another piece of metaphorical glass – The Overton Window...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work, Protest
Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism. McIntosh, who is...
by Naomi Runder | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured, I Speak, Protest
My name is Naomi Runder. I’m an organizer with Iowa Student Action and a student at Grinnell College. I never expected to be a student in Iowa. For a while, I wasn’t even sure whether I could be a student anywhere. As I was preparing to graduate high school in...
by Laura Kaplan-Weisman | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Health, I Speak
My name is Dr. Laura Kaplan-Weisman, and I am a family physician from Maryland. I provide primary care to people of all ages and all walks of life, and I feel strongly that what our country needs now is universal health care. That’s why I traveled to Washington to...
by Adrienne Evans | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, Rural
After years of the Idaho legislature’s failure to enact Medicaid expansion, leaving 70,000 in the state without care, the citizens of Idaho took action. Last year, Idaho’s outgoing governor Butch Otter came out with a sudden call for the passage of Medicaid expansion,...
