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Author: Joyce Rice

Joyce Rice is a cartoonist and game designer with a focus in journalism and education. She cofounded Symbolia, was a Knight Fellow at the American University Game Lab, and teaches digital comics at the California College of the Arts. She’s spoken about media innovation at SXSW, Game Developer’s Conference, and on the Verge’s Top Shelf, and she's worked with the fine folks at Vox Media, Showtime, and American Public Media to produce powerful stories. She rides bikes and sleep in Chicago.

You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

by Joyce Rice

Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

A history of company towns.

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A Pandemic Rearranges Everything

by Joyce Rice

Posted on March 1, 2021September 21, 2022

COVID has forced us to reconsider how we live our lives – but what will we take with us when it’s all over?

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Powerless

by Joyce Rice

Posted on November 13, 2020July 23, 2021

How Pacific Gas and Electric is leaving California residents in the dark.

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A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic

by Joyce Rice

Posted on April 13, 2020April 27, 2020

We’re repeating a lot of the same mistakes from the 1918 “Spanish Flu” H1N1 outbreak.

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Can America Fix Its Housing Crisis?

by Joyce Rice

Posted on July 8, 2019April 15, 2022

Racist policies and unfair market forces have created a cruel environment for renters.

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Americans Are Drowning in Debt

by Joyce Rice

Posted on February 18, 2019March 18, 2022

We live with it. We die with it. And we’re told it’s our fault.

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Is Space Too Expensive?

by Joyce Rice

Posted on September 21, 2018September 23, 2022

NASA’s history has been plagued by politics and budget concerns. For space exploration to survive, we need to think outside of these Earthly constraints.

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A Brief History of Folsom Prison

by Joyce Rice

Posted on July 23, 2018

California’s second penitentiary defined American incarceration for more than a century. And no figure has been more closely tied to it than Johnny Cash.

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China Enters the Space Race

by Joyce Rice

Posted on April 11, 2018September 21, 2020

They’ve been there since the beginning, but the US Government is still afraid of a spacefaring China.

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How to Protect Yourself Against Spearphishing

by Joyce Rice

Posted on November 13, 2017August 4, 2021

The famous “DNC hacks” weren’t hacks – they were phished. Don’t let it happen to you!

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