Michelle Chen

Contributing Writer

@meeshellchen

Michelle Chen is a contributing editor at In These Times and Dissent magazine, and associate editor at CultureStrike. She is also a co-producer of “Asia Pacific Forum” on Pacifica’s WBAI and Dissent‘s “Belabored” podcast, and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Find her on Twitter: @meeshellchen.

Inequality September 28, 2016

6.8 Million Teenagers Are Food-Insecure

Young adults are increasingly victims of a failing economy that is leaving them starving.

Michelle Chen
September 26, 2016

Religion Versus Unions

Some professors at the Jesuit Seattle University have been barred from organizing because their jobs are too religious in nature.

Michelle Chen
Election 2016 September 21, 2016

Trump’s Terrible, No-Good Solution for Gender Inequality in the Workplace

To center the childcare debate around tax breaks and minimal subsidies is insulting to all working women.

Michelle Chen
HIV and AIDS September 19, 2016

Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and its ilk protect profits at the expense of prevention.

Michelle Chen
Economy September 16, 2016

Another Free-Trade Deal Bites the Dust

Negotiations surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have been indefinitely suspended.

Michelle Chen
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September 14, 2016

Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools

The teachers across Agora Cyber Charter’s “virtual classrooms” have won an unlikely organizing victory.

Michelle Chen
Inequality September 9, 2016

A $15 Minimum Wage Would Stop 1.2 Million Households From Going Hungry

Fourteen percent of households are classified as “food insecure.” That has to change.

Michelle Chen
Labor September 7, 2016

People With Disabilities Aren’t Entitled to the Minimum Wage

Antiquated labor laws treat people with disabilities as second-tier employees.

Michelle Chen
Gender and Sexuality September 2, 2016

The Burkini Ban Represents Everything That Is Wrong About France’s Approach to Minorities

The country’s militant secularism treats otherness as a temporary phase on the road to assimilation.

Michelle Chen
Climate Change August 31, 2016

Are You a Millennial? Congratulations! Climate Change Will Cost Your Generation $8.8 Trillion

That is, unless real change comes to the economy, and fast.

Michelle Chen

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Michelle Chen

Contributing Writer

Inequality September 28, 2016

Young adults are increasingly victims of a failing economy that is leaving them starving.

September 26, 2016

Some professors at the Jesuit Seattle University have been barred from organizing because their jobs are too religious in nature.

Election 2016 September 21, 2016

To center the childcare debate around tax breaks and minimal subsidies is insulting to all working women.

HIV and AIDS September 19, 2016

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and its ilk protect profits at the expense of prevention.

Economy September 16, 2016

Negotiations surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have been indefinitely suspended.

GET THE NATION IN YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING

September 14, 2016

The teachers across Agora Cyber Charter’s “virtual classrooms” have won an unlikely organizing victory.

Inequality September 9, 2016

Fourteen percent of households are classified as “food insecure.” That has to change.

Labor September 7, 2016

Antiquated labor laws treat people with disabilities as second-tier employees.

Gender and Sexuality September 2, 2016

The country’s militant secularism treats otherness as a temporary phase on the road to assimilation.

Climate Change August 31, 2016

That is, unless real change comes to the economy, and fast.