THRU Magazine Archive
The United States holds 25% of the world’s prison population with over two million incarcerated individuals. African-Americans represent about 13% of the U.S. population, but are incarcerated at six times the rate of white Americans, according to the NAACP. At face value, any politician can use these statistics as a sweeping indictment against African-Americans, the contentious […]
Housing isn’t any kind of crisis right now, it’s wealth disparity Your house, your tent in the city, your apartment in the sky, your manor and estate on the hill, your cottage and farm in the country — or whatever place you call home — is treated like a commodity, a raw material for the new digital […]
The silence of Basset stirs many rumors. He was a star in Syria as the national soccer team’s goalkeeper, and were he to have fled Syria like four million others since 2011, peace and good fortune would characterize his life. He might have been in the World Cup by joining a different nation’s team, becoming […]
Family Values and the Workforce Participation Rate This morning, I read about Jeb Bush and his recent comment that, “workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows.” So in order for us to achieve his demand that we grow the economy by 4% annually, “people need to work longer hours and through their […]
I remember suffering the idea of college throughout high school. While most of my classmates were off applying to universities far and wide, I was not, and I recall a formative alienation from them. Similar to many my age, I had no idea what my degree would read at college graduation, not even an inkling. […]