In Defense of Homeownership In Defense of Homeownership
It’s been blamed for everything from NIMBYism to urban sprawl. So why do I still want in?
Oct 18, 2023 / Column / Kate Wagner
Aging in America Shouldn’t Be This Hard Aging in America Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Why should capital take any interest in people who are no longer a source of profit?
Oct 12, 2023 / Rebecca Gordon
The Crisis of Shelter in the United States The Crisis of Shelter in the United States
Housing is one the building blocks of human life. Why is it so scarce in this country?
Oct 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Fed Up With the Homelessness Crisis, the Sacramento County DA Sues the City Fed Up With the Homelessness Crisis, the Sacramento County DA Sues the City
Can DA Thien Ho’s lawsuit force cities to more effectively confront a growing humanitarian catastrophe?
Sep 22, 2023 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky
Why Houses Don’t Look Like Houses Anymore Why Houses Don’t Look Like Houses Anymore
Aggregated real estate listings like Zillow have distorted our understanding of what makes a house a home.
Sep 19, 2023 / Column / Kate Wagner
America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled
The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, and childcare providers. Now they are almost entirely gone.
Sep 15, 2023 / Editorial / Bryce Covert for The Nation
On Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About On Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About
Rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue, the term has simply become an insult people throw around. Rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue, the...
Sep 5, 2023 / Editorial / Kate Wagner
Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town
The West Coast capital, once famous for hostility to organized labor, emerges as the epicenter of national strike action.
Sep 1, 2023 / C.M. Lewis
Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60 Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60
King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the constitution and resistance—often violent—to change. In many ways, we face the same choice today.
Aug 28, 2023 / Eric Foner
Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People
Americans’ attitude toward people sleeping on the street has become angrier, crueler, and more overtly violent. Blame a right-wing propaganda campaign.
Aug 24, 2023 / Ned Resnikoff