Why We Should All Care About the Walmart Strikers Why We Should All Care About the Walmart Strikers
As low-wage retail jobs take over our economy, this strike will tell us whether workers can improve them.
Oct 9, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Women Went Missing in Last Night’s Presidential Debate Women Went Missing in Last Night’s Presidential Debate
Despite the centrality of women's issues and women's votes, not a single mention was made by either candidate.
Oct 4, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Dear Hanna Rosin: I’m Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy Dear Hanna Rosin: I’m Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy
The End of Men’s prediction of an American matriarchy fails to define what that would actually entail.
Oct 2, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
A Gaffe Is When a Republican Tells the Truth A Gaffe Is When a Republican Tells the Truth
This campaign season has been extremely instructional—about what the Republican Party really thinks.
Sep 25, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
How Paul Ryan Would Decimate the New Deal How Paul Ryan Would Decimate the New Deal
Ryan wouldn’t just slash Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. He would fundamentally alter how those programs work.
Sep 12, 2012 / Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert
Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed. Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed.
Clinton may be explainer-in-chief, but he left out the gaping hole welfare reform has made in the safety net.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy? A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy?
If women really do become this country’s breadwinners, it’ll likely mean more families slip from the middle class.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work
Pink-collar jobs have been decimated right alongside declining blue-collar work.
Sep 4, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Women Backslide in Retail Jobs, Losing Yet Another Foothold in the New Economy Women Backslide in Retail Jobs, Losing Yet Another Foothold in the New Economy
It’ll be hard for women to win the future if they keep losing ground on their own turf.
Aug 27, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Can We All Just Get Along and Solve the Gender Wage Gap? Can We All Just Get Along and Solve the Gender Wage Gap?
National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru and I take our debate to real time.
Aug 24, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert