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Society & Justice

Society is the web of agreements and tensions that hold people together. Justice is the measure of whether those bonds are fair, or only appear to be. Systems of law, culture, and identity set the stage for who belongs and who is left out. Injustice is rarely loud; it lives in defaults, habits, and gaps in access that accumulate over time. To examine justice is to ask how power circulates and whether the structures we inherit serve everyone, or only those already holding the keys.

A flat vector illustration of hands exchanging cash for groceries at a church pantry table.

The Gift and the Ground Beneath It

A few years ago, a small literacy nonprofit down the road from my school received an email the director assumed was a scam. It came from an intermediary she’d never heard of, asking for a quick call about a “significant” gift, and she almost deleted it — the sort of

An illustration of three coffee shop workers holding icons representing demands for higher pay, steadier hours, and better staffing.

Red Cups, Empty Shifts: Inside Starbucks’ Loudest Day of the Year

Starbucks workers hijacked Red Cup Day because that’s where the attention lives. The strike is less about shutting stores down and more about making delay and union busting expensive in the only currency Starbucks can’t print: its brand.

When Private Equity Eats Your Community Project

When Private Equity Eats Your Community Project

Automattic's countersuit reveals how Silver Lake's $250M investment turned WP Engine from community member into trademark violator, exposing the pattern of private equity extracting value from open source.