This Is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities This Is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities
Like other struggling schools, the University of Arizona is raising out-of-state tuition—and courting the affluent students who can afford to pay it.
May 19, 2015 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg
Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process
Employers exploit legal loopholes to keep poverty-wage workers from earning overtime wages.
May 18, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Bill de Blasio on the Crisis of Inequality and the Blind Spots of the Democratic Party Bill de Blasio on the Crisis of Inequality and the Blind Spots of the Democratic Party
An interview with the New York City mayor as he launches a new “Progressive Agenda to Combat Inequality.”
May 14, 2015 / Eric Alterman
Russ Feingold Is Running Again for the Senate and for Economic Fairness Russ Feingold Is Running Again for the Senate and for Economic Fairness
“We need to get started fixing all this,” says Wisconsin progressive.
May 14, 2015 / John Nichols
Why Progressives Want to Rewrite the Rules—and the Story—of the US Economy Why Progressives Want to Rewrite the Rules—and the Story—of the US Economy
A conversation with the Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal.
May 14, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
The Imaginary Public Support for Obama’s Trade Agenda The Imaginary Public Support for Obama’s Trade Agenda
Why does the White House keep telling reporters the public is lining up behind the trade push?
May 13, 2015 / George Zornick
Labour’s Love’s Lost Labour’s Love’s Lost
The party must renew links to British civil society.
May 13, 2015 / D.D. Guttenplan
Nimbler Than Nimbyism Nimbler Than Nimbyism
D.W. Gibson gets beyond the banter about gentrification.
May 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Abigail Savitch-Lew
Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.) Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.)
The White House has been going hard against Elizabeth Warren for making this claim—but she’s right.
May 12, 2015 / George Zornick
Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
The president’s suggestion that his critics do not understand trade issues is “absolutely inaccurate.”
May 11, 2015 / John Nichols