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Climate ChangeSeptember 6, 2021
To Survive Climate Change, We Need to Rebuild the World as We Know It
Extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida prove that we need to rethink everything we think we know about the built and natural worlds.
Jake Bittle
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DemocratsJanuary 7, 2021
How Biden Can Save the USPS
He should take a cue from Trump and use the presidency as a bully pulpit for the Postal Service.
Jake Bittle
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Working ConditionsMarch 27, 2020
The Postal Service Is Breaking Down
Covid-19 has already begun to take its toll on the overextended USPS workforce.
Jake Bittle
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PoliticsFebruary 20, 2020
The Novels That Explain the Failure of Centrism
Anthony Trollope’s six-volume saga about moderates in British parliament can now be read as a critique of liberal political values.
Jake Bittle
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CitiesSeptember 18, 2019
Trump’s Plan to Solve Homelessness Is Horrifying
Democrats are right to be outraged—but their ideas aren’t much better.
Jake Bittle
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PovertyMarch 28, 2019
The ‘Hidden’ Crisis of Rural Homelessness
Until the federal government tackles rural homelessness as a distinct issue, the problem will only get worse.
Jake Bittle
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Labor OrganizingDecember 20, 2018
Who’s Leading the Next Unionization Charge? That’s Right: Florida.
The Service Employees International Union is poised to represent half of all adjunct faculty in the “right to work” state’s public-school system.
Jake Bittle
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EconomyJune 7, 2018
Bernie Sanders Is to Deliver a Commonsense Plan to Save the Postal Service
The senator is calling on the Trump administration to strengthen the agency, not sell it off.
Jake Bittle
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Working ConditionsMay 3, 2018
In Rural America, the Postal Service Is Already Collapsing
Cutbacks have created a labor shortage at smaller stations, and mail carriers are struggling to do their jobs.
Jake Bittle
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JobsApril 27, 2018
In Right-to-Work Iowa, Faculty May Just Have to Follow West Virginia’s Lead
Non-tenure-track professors at the University of Iowa are fighting for bargaining rights in the kind of labor environment Janus threatens to make the national norm—and they’re ready for direct action.
Jake Bittle