Why are we even discussing a silly issue that would be downright impossible to enforce even if it were illegal? Hell, you can buy the abortion pills online from some country or other, and those pills will probably become 10 times more effective every decade. The way this is going, in 20 years a woman won’t even need…

Definitely he did a shit thing. But I question the wisdom in general (not specific to this case) of having formal lifelong consequences for actions undertaken at age 19, considering the consensus scientific understanding that mental maturity, such as it is, typically arrives around 25.

But if anything, poorer people are more likely than the middle and upper classes to respond by sharing housing and expenses with extended family and using relatives to lessen the cost of childcare.

Glad you touched on the child care bit. I remember not being too angry at parents who could come to scheduled report card conferences because of work and giving my students extra time to do homework in class because they had to look after younger siblings when they got home. Childcare is way too expensive in this…

My wife’s Mexican from a poor state and her family’s got a lifestyle that would be considered damned poor from a gringo perspective. That said, they don’t see themselves as poor because that family pools their resources and organizes fiestas just about every weekend with plenty of food and then some, and the kids and…

Fruit is very affordable.

Empowering Russell?

Well...that’s how you become and/or remain super rich...

Simmons oughta have the scratch to just get these people their money, and figure out the “card” mess later. He made his fortune on the entertainment dollars of the very customers he’s screwing now.

If Russell Simmons really cared, he’d personally reimburse these folks who got scammed like rubes on a leaky riverboat. He ought to pony up and prove he’s not just a two bit grifter in a 3 piece suit.

It’s expensive to be poor. Rushcard is proving that and then some.

Article didn’t in any way delegitimize the experiences of black folks. The articulate young author went out of his way to be sensitive to black people by asking how to completely and unambiguously abolish police brutality and racism without in any way harming public safety. An impressive and balanced piece written by…

Thank you for coming forward to admit to us that you are, in fact, the problem.

It weird for Gawker of all places to take issue with censorship. After all, take a look at the total uniformity of comments on any of the “hot button” issues posted here and you’ll realize that any dissenting opinions have been banned.

“It is plausible that Black Lives Matter has created the conditions for [rioters] to exploit for their own personal gain . . .”

Voltaire isn’t exactly required reading these days.

And who is going to be on the committee to decide what is or isn’t moronic? 200 years ago the idea that black people aren’t property was “moronic”.

As well you should publish different viewpoints even if they are sometimes dumb/morally bankrupt/etc. Whatever happened to the whole, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” idea?

I... wow. I work at my own university’s newspaper as copy chief. Since it’s a rather conservative school, I regularly have to edit pieces with which I deeply disagree. Often these pieces are also poorly written and argued. But the 0p-ed section is meant to be a forum for student opinions, so unless it’s so hateful,…

I’m glad this story is getting the attention it deserves. I remember submitting a tip to Gawker when the same thing happened at my college paper, hoping some concerned journalists would see the importance of it. We covered it really thoroughly and were outraged. Also, our funding restructure had nothing to do with a…