Matthew Desmond, the academic behind the Eviction Lab, studies the housing crisis from within the home.
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New Post for 100 Days in Appalachia
Click here to read my post about the proposed budget cuts to adult education programming and why that sets a terrifying precedent for the next grant renewal cycles.
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Populism
Good country folk historically hate big business, cops, authority of any kind, and rich folks. What happened? Nothing, really.
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Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Poverty is a state of emergency.
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Calling Him Hitler
Last week, ICE officials raided a slaughterhouse in East Tennessee to detain nearly 100 workers.
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A Mississippi miss will set you free
Ode to Southern women, the girls who’ve been whooping asses longer than anybody should have to.
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Sometimes, Evil Prevails: Dry County Economics
Liquor money is green as anybody’s.
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Still on Subsistence: Redneck Survival and The Walking Dead
Crossbows, accents, and bad bitches. The Walking Dead is the white trash Game of Thrones.
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The Dead Become a Song: Review of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward is the New South’s voice and artist. Her new novel is painful, melancholy, and beautifully wrought.
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Meth Mouth
As if you needed to know the various ways policies have ignored the meth epidemic.
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Snake & Tree 