As income inequality now rivals that of the gilded age, scrounging for survival has become a mainstr
![St Louis came to international attention because of the killing of Michael Brown, writes Kendzior [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201483112921927734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As income inequality now rivals that of the gilded age, scrounging for survival has become a mainstr
![St Louis came to international attention because of the killing of Michael Brown, writes Kendzior [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201483112921927734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Decades of violence and discrimination have to be examined to start the process of healing St Louis.
![People wait in line to attend the funeral for Michael Brown St. Louis, Missouri [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014825152029566734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why Israel and its supporters fear Gaza’s dead.
!['A baby killed by soldiers is a baby killed by soldiers,' writes Kendzior [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20148145169318734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Detroit residents face water cuts, which deny them the basic human right of access to water.
![Residents have protested against water cut-offs in Detroit [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014722165452669734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The symbol of US consumerism, the shopping mall, is crumbling.
![Half of the malls in the US are predicted to close within the next decade [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20147111157151734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
When urban decay becomes a set piece to be remodelled or romanticised.
![In some north Philadelphia elementary schools, nearly every child is living below the poverty line, writes Kendzior [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/201452711527540734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Has college become less about education and more about purchasing credentials for flawed job market?
![The proportion of college graduates taking jobs that do not require higher education has risen in recent years [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/201451411353298734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
US foreign policy needs greater diversity of skill and ideas, more women and a breakdown of economic barriers.

In authoritarian regimes, the demonisation of social media is a transparent play for power.
![Turkish prime minister says social media is big trouble for society [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014246237228734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Digital media gives cruelty, new visibility, but does the prestige of old media give bigoted ranting respectability?
![Media's old guard believe social media has eroded standards of ethics and behaviour [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/201412111515654734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)