Jesse A. Finkelstein It was grim. The United States was confronting the Great Depression. Jobs disappeared, and there was no safety net. Many artists were, in fact, starving. Between 1935 and 1948, the Federal Music Project, a program of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), provided work for musicians…

by Jesse Finkelstein Bob Margolin and I walk together whenever we can. The last time we did it in person was in Memphis in January. Each time I come away uplifted, seeing important (and unimportant) things in a better or different perspective. Even setting aside that he is one of…

by Jesse A. Finkelstein No, there is not yet a vaccine. But at least one, seemingly impossible, very positive thing is happening. A year ago, China alone accounted for nearly a third of global carbon dioxide emissions. But satellite images show that China’s air pollution has decreased by 25% in the last month. Levels of nitrogen dioxide, created by burning fossil fuels, have dropped by a full 30%. The coronavirus accomplished what activists and world leaders could not.

Escaping Zero How We Can Bridge The Seemingly Unbridgeable Gap That Divides Us While we seem to live a world of dispute and disagreement, there is one thing upon which we can all agree: our society is greatly divided. Of course, no one accepts responsibility for this. Paradoxically, it is…