Economy

Residents of Daytona Beach, Florida, line up in their cars during a free food distribution for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on November 9, 2025.

We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life

Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

Apr 8, 2026 / Column / Kali Holloway

As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance

As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance

Nineteenth-century textile workers longed to stay human in a machine age. So do we.

Apr 7, 2026 / Feature / John Nichols

A ChatGPT assistant display on a laptop.

The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination

When you’re a galactically rich tech mogul upset with adverse press coverage, you just buy yourself more flattering media outlets.

Apr 6, 2026 / David Futrelle

The Cost of Making Cesar Chavez the Face of a Movement

The Cost of Making Cesar Chavez the Face of a Movement The Cost of Making Cesar Chavez the Face of a Movement

The harrowing revelations about Chavez expose how much Latino history in the United States has been made to rest on one man.

Apr 6, 2026 / Julissa Natzely Arce Raya

Workers picket outside of the JBS meatpacking plant on March 16, 2026, in Greeley, Colorado.

Meet the Immigrant Workers Who Launched the First Major Meatpacking Strike in Decades Meet the Immigrant Workers Who Launched the First Major Meatpacking Strike in Decades

Amid the Trump administration’s assault on immigrant workers, thousands at the country’s largest meat processor organized across nationalities to launch a historic work stoppage.

Apr 3, 2026 / Ella Fanger

Why Black People Can’t Earn Our Way Out of Racism in Maternal Care: A Q&A With Khiara Bridges

Why Black People Can’t Earn Our Way Out of Racism in Maternal Care: A Q&A With Khiara Bridges Why Black People Can’t Earn Our Way Out of Racism in Maternal Care: A Q&A With Khiara Bridges

In her new book, Bridges found that healthcare provided through private markets leaves more room for discrimination and unequal care to take root than in a public program like Med...

Apr 2, 2026 / Q&A / Regina Mahone

Billionaires have accumulated vast tracts of real estate across the country, including in Indian Creek Village, Florida, pictured here on Sunday, March 22, 2026.

Lust for Luxury Lust for Luxury

The real estate gluttony of the superrich is truly eye-popping.

Apr 1, 2026 / Michael Massing

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

Apr 1, 2026 / Elizabeth Spiers

Kjell Inge Røkke mushes his dog team across the Bering Sea.

The Norwegian Billionaire Who Broke the Iditarod The Norwegian Billionaire Who Broke the Iditarod

Alaska’s last great race has struggled to keep up its finances and increase participation. Now, a $300,000 gift from an “expedition musher” promises to transform the event.

Mar 31, 2026 / StudentNation / Colin Warren

The rebuilt Industrial Canal levee wall (L) in the Lower Ninth Ward stands near restored homes in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 6, 2025.

The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Can’t Get a Break The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Can’t Get a Break

The neighborhood is facing an onslaught of catastrophic projects that could be more damaging than Hurricane Katrina.

Mar 30, 2026 / Roberta Brandes Gratz

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