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May 17, 2023
Can America Go Car-Free? Gen Z Hopes So.
Young people today are already driving less, but breaking the country’s car-dependency will require unprecedented investment in infrastructure and public transit.
Hannah Reynolds
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February 23, 2023
It’s Time to Talk About Nationalizing America’s Railroads
The East Palestine train derailment confirms it: Our rail industry is too important to be left to the corporations.
John Nichols
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November 22, 2022
Labor’s Winning Weapon
Two Canadian unions show why the supermajority strike is the key to worker power.
Jane McAlevey
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October 18, 2022
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
A national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally.
Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox
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April 20, 2022
Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power
The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea.
Lee Hyun Choi
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February 17, 2022
The Avoidable Tragedy of Road Deaths
The media pays a lot of attention to rising crime, but more than twice as many people die in traffic collisions in the US.
Bryce Covert
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August 5, 2021
America Faces Cascading Crises. Democrats Must Act.
Any serious effort to alleviate the real problems facing Americans will depend on progressives’ corralling Democratic unity.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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June 1, 2020
Transit Is a Social Justice Issue in the 2020 Election
Too few candidates talk about the necessity of investing in transit options for working people. But Maya Rockeymoore Cummings does.
John Nichols
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April 9, 2020
New York’s Transit Workers Keep Getting Sick
Covid-19 has turned public transit into a nightmare for commuters and employees alike.
Ross Barkan
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April 3, 2020
‘We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder’
As the death toll mounts, unions representing transit workers in major cities demand protective gear.
John Nichols