Eric Shear

The day after the Supreme Court delivered a victory for Pacific Legal Foundation in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, published a column under this blistering, eye-catching headline: “Yesterday’s Union-Busting Supreme Court Decision Was a Segregationist Throwback.” Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision, Mystal wrote, used arguments “effectively repurposed from arguments segregationists used against civil rights activists.” We shouldn’t even be surprised by the decision, he scoffed, because “[t]he court’s conservatives have done everything they can think of to de-unionize America in service of mega-corporate interests.” By siding with Cedar Point Nursery, the Court “not only opened the door to continued union-busting” but also “reinvigorated long-discredited views of how property owners might use that property as an excuse to deny civil rights across the spectrum,”

When Biology Professor Bret Weinstein was threatened and harassed at Evergreen State College for his opinions about diversity and inclusion on campus, he felt like he was living in some sort of dystopian nightmare.

Peyman Pakdel and his wife, Sima are the kind of neighbors most people want. Peyman is an engineer who worked his way up to become part-owner of a small manufacturing company, Sima is a dentist with a family practice.

In the past few decades as the country has evolved toward equality, moves from universities like crafting admissions policies to admit only so many students of one race or shaping a company boardroom based on the sex of its members would’ve been thought reprehensible.

Historically, there has been a popular image of Asian-Americans that is best described as “nerdy” and “academic.” Think Audrey Hepburn’s oversized-glasses-wearing-heavily-accented-nerdy neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany’s or the socially awkward Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles who is criticized for his foreignness.

The large auditorium was mostly empty when the Fairfax County School Board held its public hearing in May.

Can society be designed? Can an expert engineer alleviate people’s pains and struggles with a good-enough central plan and blueprint?

The declaration of Independence famously declared the universal principle that “all men are created equal.”

In 1902, William Warley was getting ready to graduate from Central High School in Louisville, Kentucky. Warley, as one of the top students at Central and a leader of his class, was a bright, charismatic young Black man looking to make his mark on a country that didn’t yet value your intellect—or your rights—if you were the wrong color.

Legend. Icon. Renegade. Pioneer. The sobriquets Willie Benedetti collected during his lifetime are as numerous as they are grand.

Born and raised in New York, Gilbert Fornatora’s family often vacationed in Florida, offering them a warm escape from the brutal East Coast winters. It was during these cherished trips of his boyhood years that he became taken with the Miami-Dade County region. But his interest in the area wasn’t due only to its scenic landscapes and warm sunshine. In the 1950s and 1960s, when Gilbert had become an adult, the investment potential in the western part of the county was expected to boom.

There's an old saying: “When you’re having dinner tonight, thank a farmer.” Walking through a grocery store, it’s easy to forget everything that went into getting that apple or steak onto the shelves.