Saturday Link Love: Giving Directly, Crime, and Impeachment

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier!

Researchers Find A Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash To Poor Families, on NPR—“Over the past decade there has been a surge of interest in a novel approach to helping the world’s poor: Instead of giving them goods like food or services like job training, just hand out cash — with no strings attached.”

Lisa Page Speaks: ‘There’s No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All’, on the Daily Beast—“It’s not just that Lisa Page may never be safe as long as Trump is president. It’s that we won’t be safe, either.

The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think, on HNN—“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but incarcerates one-quarter of all prisoners across the globe.”

With impeachment, America’s epistemic crisis has arrived, on Vox—“Can the right-wing machine hold the base in an alternate reality long enough to get through the next election?”

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