Articles by: Mattea Kramer

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home – Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home – Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her native Evanston, Illinois, and returned as an adult — ready to buy a house in the historically Black neighborhood in which she grew up — that she delved deep into her city’s[Read More…]

by 28/10/2021 Comments are Disabled World
 Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic

 Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic

In our new era of nearly unparalleled upheaval, as a pandemic ravages the bodies of some and the minds of nearly everyone, as the associated economic damage disposes of the livelihoods of many, and as even the promise of democracy fades, the people whose lives were already on a razor’s edge — who were vulnerable and isolated before the advent of Covid-19 —[Read More…]

by 16/09/2020 Comments are Disabled Life/Philosophy
A 12-Step Program to Opioid Justice

A 12-Step Program to Opioid Justice

It was evening and we were in a windowless room in a Massachusetts jail. We had just finished a class — on job interview skills — and, with only a few minutes remaining, the women began voicing their shared fear. Upon their release, would someone really hire them? Beneath that concern lurked another one: Would they be able to avoid[Read More…]

by 20/11/2019 Comments are Disabled World