Andrew Lewis pays $320 a month on his student loans. Daniel Chung doesn’t know how much debt he’ll end up with on top of the $7,500 he already has. The rising college senior plans to go to law school, ...

For Cecily McMillan, getting mail while incarcerated was a complex project. Any letter that was sent to her went through a metal detector and was opened by correctional officers before landing in the ...

Nearly all states allowing jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people for room and board or medical care highlights a deeper problem: their families, especially Black women, are forced to cover ...

"It was an immense and solid building, erected at vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had ...

This is a hell of a piece. Long. Kind of wonky. But if you're interested in the fiscal hole we're in and have been in for four years (actually way longer), it's well worth a read. The takeaway: And ...

A message to all humanists: Stephanie Black’s Life and Debt, which opens this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival on Friday, will begin a weeklong run at Cinema Village the day after. If you love ...

A human just cannot fathom a trillion. It's much too big a number. Somebody put it this way: If you spent a million dollars a day, and had been spending that kind of money every single day since Jesus ...

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." --the late economist Herbert Stein A human just cannot fathom a trillion. It's much too big a number. Somebody put it this way: If you spent a ...