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Hungering for Equality: Lisa Miller on Food and Class in the U.S.

Lisa Miller, award-winning journalist, is a religion editor for Newsweek, where she has worked since 2000. Her 2010 book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, is a history and personal memoir on the idea of life after death. In this article, she tackles a more down-to-earth situation: access to adequate nutrition in a nation with a widening income gap between the relatively comfortable and the decidedly not. This piece originally appeared in Newsweek in November, 2010.

Read it here: Miller, "Divided We Eat"

Large Caesar Salad – Email on the Side: MG Siegler, “I Will Check My Phone at Dinner And You Will Deal With It”

MG Siegler’s snarky title frames an ongoing drama in which we are all actors, willing or otherwise; day by day we redefine our relationships and our lives with new technologies. Siegler is a San Francisco-based journalist whose work appears frequently on TechCrunch, an online technology-oriented news source, blog, and information hub. He is a frequent tweeter and a prolific blogger (parislemon.com), and as his article mentions, is never far from his phone.

Read it here: MG Siegler, "I Will Check My Phone At Dinner And You Will Deal With It"