These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights
J-1 recipients say the visa program is as an unregulated pipeline for temporary migrant labor that props up the US hospitality industry.
Dec 1, 2020 / Noah Flora
Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency
In the last decade, more than a dozen hospitals have closed in the region.
Dec 1, 2020 / Photo Essay / Stacy Kranitz and Magnum Foundation
The Democratic Party Will Keep Betraying Labor. It’s Time to Launch a Workers’ Party. The Democratic Party Will Keep Betraying Labor. It’s Time to Launch a Workers’ Party.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe the country needs a third major party.
Dec 1, 2020 / Editorial / Paul Blest
Don’t Abandon the Democratic Party—Take It Over Don’t Abandon the Democratic Party—Take It Over
We don’t have to choose between a fantasy third party and the Democratic Party in its current state.
Dec 1, 2020 / Editorial / Jonathan Smucker
Privatizing Puerto Rico Privatizing Puerto Rico
The rushed sell-off of the territory’s electrical utility is part of a larger move to gut public goods for private profit.
Dec 1, 2020 / Feature / Ed Morales
How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives
Once you put on your “monopoly decoder ring,” David Dayen writes in his new book, you start to see how monopolies influence almost every part of American society.
Nov 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert
Snap Judgments Snap Judgments
Dialectic in the dishwater. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of November 23.
Nov 27, 2020 / The Greater Quiet / Steve Brodner