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February 25, 2021
We Must Change the Way We Measure Economic Health
Our primary focus should be on improving the lives of our most marginalized—and without an arbitrary price tag.
Jhumpa Bhattacharya and Andrea Flynn
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January 13, 2021
How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it happen.
Dale Maharidge
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January 12, 2021
Housing Is a Right. During a Pandemic, It’s Also a Fight.
In California’s agricultural heartland, farmworkers are fighting back against expensive rents, substandard housing, and economic disenfranchisement.
David Bacon
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December 2, 2020
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October 21, 2020
Labor, Land, and Legacy: What New Might We Grow in the Shell of the Old?
An immigrant family went from running a small restaurant to becoming small landlords. Amid pandemic uncertainty, their daughter wonders, What’s my place?
Nadia Maria Mohamed
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October 19, 2020
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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October 9, 2020
Will Deeper Segregation Be Bill de Blasio’s Legacy?
New York’s “progressive” mayor is backing wealthy Manhattanites who want to show the homeless the door.
Corinne Low and Shams DaBaron
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September 25, 2020
On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Muhammad Ali
Louisville is hallowed ground, the birthplace of Muhammad Ali. It will now, thanks to Daniel Cameron, also be remembered as the home of an unspeakable injustice.
Dave Zirin
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September 16, 2020
The Stories We Tell About Class
A conversation with Eula Biss about the nature of work, leisure, consumption, and her new book Having and Being Had.
Tal Milovina
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September 16, 2020
A Movement for Housing Justice Is Camped Out on Philly Streets
Activists gather to protect encampments and demand that the city transfer buildings to a community land trust.
Chris Gelardi