Susan Campbell

1 week ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Campbell

For me, it was the red-faced priest who stood in front of his battered church, telling whoever would listen the story of riding out the worst tornado on record in a bathtub. Or it was standing in line on a blasted street with volunteers, waiting to get a tetanus shot with my sister-in-law. But it was probably the door I knocked to deliver donated food, only to find behind it a young woman I'd known when she was a little girl riding on my church's bus.

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Campbell

Connecticut's House recently passed a bill that would set up a work group to study the feasibility of providing a Universal Basic Income to state residents. Universal Basic Income - or UBI - is an idea that goes back to when communities shared the meat they hunted as a group. These days, UBI usually means an unconditional (you don't have to qualify), regular cash payment made to adult residents who live in a particular geographic area.

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Campbell

Like every college educator in the country, I'm finishing spring semester grading for one last class, communication and the law, and preparing to teach an online summer course (also communication and the law). This is one of my favorite classes, which is mostly an examination of Supreme Court First Amendment cases, and I've taught it for a while. In fact, I was teaching this course when Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died.

1 month ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Campbell

I am one generation from the factory floor, so imagine my surprise when last week, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick redefined the American dream to include a factory job repairing robot arms. I imagine in that dusty cemetery in southwest Missouri, generations of my family - factory workers, iron ore miners, all - started spinning in their graves. And I do not believe my ancestors are the only ones doing so.

1 month ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Campbell

The Trump administration has been floating ideas that are meant to increase the country's birthrate, but I have better ones. Their timing is a little ironic, because while the administration was gutting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's IVF team, Trump was calling himself " the fertilization president." Ignore that disturbing visual image, and let's move on.