To Sarah Jaffe, the idea that you can love your job has become a trap.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
Lauren Kaori Gurley is a senior staff writer at Vice’s tech desk, Motherboard, and a former Prospect intern.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Fair Housing Failure—Where Even the Liberal North Whistles Dixie
The Obama administration’s new fair housing rules are the strongest in decades, but may not mean much without meaningful enforcement.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Will We See More Suburban Opposition to Fair-Housing Rules?
According to a Fair Housing complaint filed last month by the Department of Justice, Palmdale and Lancaster in the northern section of Los Angeles County are the latest satellite cities to be found discriminating against African American Section 8 voucher holders. This comes as disturbing but not unsurprising news as communities of color, particularly in […]
Posted inAmerica and the World
Bridging the Digital Divide in Cuba — and Baltimore
Today, at a 500-guest ceremony, the Cuban flag was raised above Washington, D.C., for the first time since the Cold War, as the U.S. and Cuba got the green light to resume diplomatic relations. Since Obama’s announcement last December to reopen embassies, a Cuban-style “perestroika,” has allowed for the arrival of many new technologies to […]
