Economics

Yale Grad Student Labor Union

After 3 Decades, Yale Graduate Workers Are Finally Unionizing After 3 Decades, Yale Graduate Workers Are Finally Unionizing

It’s been 34 years since grad students at Yale University first tried to organize. Now, these workers are on the cusp of forming a labor union.

Dec 5, 2022 / StudentNation / Yash Roy

Salvadore Allende addressing UN

Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today

Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sanchez both find themselves besieged by a virulent resurgence of the same right-wing movements that demolished demo...

Dec 2, 2022 / Ariel Dorfman

Karen Bass at news conference

Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets? Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets?

Or will her administration stand by as a series of high-profile sporting events turn the city into Doha on the Pacific?

Dec 2, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky

International Students

Why Do So Many International Students Leave the US? Why Do So Many International Students Leave the US?

There are nearly 1 million international students in the United States. Most want to stay in the country after graduation, yet less than half are able to do so.

Dec 2, 2022 / StudentNation / Madeline Armstrong

Biden receives Covid booster shot

Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power? Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power?

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

Dec 1, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party

Remember the role your forebears played in America’s first Reconstruction.

Nov 30, 2022 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Customers at Subway

Fast Food Runs in My Family Fast Food Runs in My Family

Me, my mother, and 10 years of the Fight for $15.

Nov 30, 2022 / Vanessa Ogle

CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried testifies

Democrats and the Crypto Meltdown Democrats and the Crypto Meltdown

On this week's episode of The Time of Monsters, David Klion on the centrist elites allied with a Ponzi scheme.

Nov 30, 2022 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

John Fetterman with Josh Shapiro

A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania

The Shapiro and Fetterman victories show there’s more than one way to win as a Democrat.

Nov 29, 2022 / Allison Troy and Jonathan Smucker

Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism

Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism

She talked to The Nation about capitalism's evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next political crisis.

Nov 29, 2022 / Q&A / Rhoda Feng

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