Kai Wright is editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, and a columnist for The Nation. His reporting and writing is focused on racial justice, economic inequity, healthcare, and sexuality. Formerly features editor of The Nation, he was the host of the podcast “The United States of Anxiety,” a partnership of The Nation and WNYC Studios. The podcast explored America’s debate over its national identity against the backdrop of the 2016 election, profiling supporters of Donald Trump and their immigrant neighbors in the suburbs of Long Island. Kai was also host of the podcast “There Goes the Neighborhood,” which explored gentrification in Brooklyn. He is the former editorial director of Colorlines and a longtime fellow of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.
Meet Ginnina Slowe, resident of the nation’s poorest urban county, where poverty is expensive—especially when you try to get out of it.
The violence in Arizona is about more than Sarah Palin’s semantics. It’s an indictment of decades’ worth of right-wing enemy-in-our-midst politics and governance.
The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America’s history of compromising was too much to stomach.
Obama must realize he’s fighting about more than tax cuts. It’s a defining battle and he can win, if he’d just join it.
This week’s Republican "tsunami" is textbook politics: voters united around, well, the same frustrations they had two years ago.
As long as Obama allows banks to write their own rules on foreclosure, he’s a willful participant in their ongoing scam.
The massive job losses between 2008 and 2009 were surely the biggest factor in the record poverty numbers the Census just reported. But those harrowing months were neither the beginning nor the end of the problem.
As long as rightwingers remain the loudest voices talking about race, they’ll continue to dominate the conversation.