Steven Fazzari in the Politifact on wages and inflation.

In the Mercury News, Steven Fazzari reflects on the economic lectures delivered by Harris' father when he was a student at Stanford University.

David Cunningham, author of "Klansville U.S.A." on the Ku Klux Klan on WRAL.com

In this New York Times op-ed, Caitlyn Collins encourages mothers to stop blaming themselves and instead blame the lack of social supports to support working mothers.

Adia Harvey Wingfield writes for the Harvard Business Review about how organizations are failing Black workers and how to do better.

“The fragmented nature of the region presents particular challenges to educational reform, especially if that reform is interested in lessening inequality,” said Odis Johnson Jr., an associate professor in Washington University’s sociology and education departments and director of its education graduate studies program. He welcomed the idea of one website that would offer students the full range of their options to make informed choices, but he said he’s curious how the organization will engage existing schools.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed, inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” But can “illegality” be socially constructed?

In the eyes of many white Americans, just knowing an immigrant’s national origin is enough to believe they are probably undocumented, said Ariela Schachter, study co-author and assistant professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Antonio French, publisher of Northsider and Odis Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology at WashU, join Katy to discuss what has changed since 2014, and what hasn't.

In just a few years, students have come to think of the sociology department as a home, as their own special place at the university.

Union supporters were able to rest easy on the primary night of Tuesday, August 7. Early in the evening, news outlets reported that the “right to work” initiative on the ballot was trailing badly, and many counties where it was expected to fail hadn’t yet tallied their votes.