What You Think You Know About Kids and Public Housing is Wrong What You Think You Know About Kids and Public Housing is Wrong
Some 6.5 million families in the US are waiting for either a spot in public housing or a housing voucher.
Nov 4, 2016 / Livia Gershon
This Small City Has a Plan to Fight the Silicon Valley Housing Crisis This Small City Has a Plan to Fight the Silicon Valley Housing Crisis
A ballot initiative in Richmond, California, could help determine whether rent control makes a comeback in the Bay Area.
Nov 4, 2016 / Jimmy Tobias
How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota
Omar’s platform focuses on economic, social, racial, and environmental justice.
Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Cirien Saadeh
Why Is Washington Still Pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Why Is Washington Still Pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Nothing exemplifies the disconnect between the establishment and ordinary Americans more than the plan to cram the TPP through the lame-duck Congress.
Nov 3, 2016 / Robert L. Borosage
10 of the World’s Poorest Countries Host Half the Global Refugee Population 10 of the World’s Poorest Countries Host Half the Global Refugee Population
Why aren’t wealthy countries, including Europe’s most powerful economies, doing more to help asylum seekers?
Nov 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen
What If Presidential Candidates Thanked Their Childcare Workers in Their Victory Speeches? What If Presidential Candidates Thanked Their Childcare Workers in Their Victory Speeches?
Amy Poehler sits down with Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Oct 28, 2016 / The Nation
Harvard Workers Went On Strike and Won—Here’s How They Did It, and How Students Helped Harvard Workers Went On Strike and Won—Here’s How They Did It, and How Students Helped
Solidarity statements and op-eds are important, but direct actions are essential.
Oct 27, 2016 / Collin P. Poirot
The Billionaire Class Is Terrified That Russ Feingold Will Return to the Senate The Billionaire Class Is Terrified That Russ Feingold Will Return to the Senate
The very rich are spending very heavily to prevent the return of a very serious reformer to the Senate.
Oct 27, 2016 / John Nichols
Tom Hayden Remembered Tom Hayden Remembered
Personal recollections from Mike Davis, Dick Flacks, Phyllis Bennis, Mark Rudd, Victor Navasky, and many others.
Oct 26, 2016 / Various Contributors
AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring
The company’s mega-merger with Time Warner would erode equity in media. Don’t let its fake interest in racial justice make you think differently.
Oct 26, 2016 / Malkia Devich-Cyril