Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

What Happened to the White Working Class?

What Happened to the White Working Class? What Happened to the White Working Class?

Downward mobility plus racial resentment is a potent combination with disastrous consequences.

Dec 1, 2015 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Can Women and Men Live Together Again?

Can Women and Men Live Together Again? Can Women and Men Live Together Again?

I hope we might meet as rebels together—not against one another, but against a social order that condemns so many of us to meaningless or degrading work in return for a glimp...

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Ehrenreich

Preying on the Poor

Preying on the Poor Preying on the Poor

How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.

May 17, 2012 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Letters Letters

Feedback on the April 2 Occupy USA issue and Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Rediscovering Poverty.”

Apr 10, 2012 / Letters / Our Readers and Barbara Ehrenreich

Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’

Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’ Michael Harrington and the ‘Culture Of Poverty’

The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.

Mar 14, 2012 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich

The Making of the 99%

The Making of the 99% The Making of the 99%

With the Occupy movement, what started as a diffuse protest against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.

Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich

Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue

Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue

What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive.

Oct 24, 2011 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Turning Poverty Into an American Crime Turning Poverty Into an American Crime

Ten years after the original publication of the now-classic Nicked and Dimed, things have gotten much worse for those in the bottom third of our country's income dis...

Aug 9, 2011 / Barbara Ehrenreich

War Without Humans

War Without Humans War Without Humans

The increasing involvement of unmanned drones in our warmaking suggests that it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.

Jul 11, 2011 / Barbara Ehrenreich

The Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State

The Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State The Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State

The role of the left should not be to uphold or defend a government increasingly at odds with the interests of the people, but to change it, drastically and from the ground up.

Aug 12, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

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