Twitter’s White-People Problem Twitter’s White-People Problem
Will the company become a leader in reforming its workforce, or a case study for how the tech industry’s relentless whiteness destroys innovation, too?
Jan 6, 2016 / Donovan X. Ramsey
Sanders Promises to Break Up Big Banks, Tax Speculation, and Establish Postal Banking Sanders Promises to Break Up Big Banks, Tax Speculation, and Establish Postal Banking
“I will rein in Wall Street so they can’t crash our economy again,” the senator declares.
Jan 5, 2016 / John Nichols
A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement
“Brazil is now a machine that creates homelessness.”
Jan 5, 2016 / Andy Robinson
Why Skills Are Not Enough to Land a Job Why Skills Are Not Enough to Land a Job
Handwringing about the devaluing of high-school diplomas is missing the point.
Jan 5, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Inside the Bundy Brothers’ Armed Occupation Inside the Bundy Brothers’ Armed Occupation
Residents of Harney County are poor, white, and conservative. Not a single one of them has joined the Bundy militia.
Jan 5, 2016 / Editorial / Zoë Carpenter
Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families? Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families?
A dangerously speedy process is sending children and their parents back to danger in Central America.
Jan 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again
A necessary antidote to buffoonery and cynicism.
Jan 4, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement
A personal meditation for 2016.
Jan 4, 2016 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Resolution for 2016: Let’s Have Lots More Presidential Debates Resolution for 2016: Let’s Have Lots More Presidential Debates
Robert Reich is petitioning the DNC to open up the process. Let’s make this the start of a fight for more debates in the primary season and this fall.
Jan 1, 2016 / John Nichols
The Dickensian Politics of Trump and His Fellow Scrooges The Dickensian Politics of Trump and His Fellow Scrooges
Political misers still refuse to make it their business to improve the lot of the working poor.
Dec 24, 2015 / John Nichols