The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate
In supporting a free-trade deal with Colombia, she claimed workers there would have better rights than Americans. Does that include being murdered by death squads?
Mar 4, 2016 / Greg Grandin
Read This Before You Sign Any Contract Read This Before You Sign Any Contract
Buried in the legal language of the contracts we all sign for jobs, credit cards, and more are clauses that effectively curtail our constitutional rights.
Mar 2, 2016 / Michelle Chen
There Goes the Neighborhood: What We Really Mean When We Say ‘Gentrification’ There Goes the Neighborhood: What We Really Mean When We Say ‘Gentrification’
A new podcast series in partnership with WNYC.
Mar 2, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright and There Goes the Neighborhood
The Big Lie at the Heart of the Texas Abortion Clinic Case The Big Lie at the Heart of the Texas Abortion Clinic Case
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the first significant test of abortion rights in a decade.
Mar 1, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform
As poor people suffer without a safety net, it’s time for the two Democratic candidates to start talking about restoring the welfare system.
Mar 1, 2016 / Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
Some Good News in the Fight for 15 Some Good News in the Fight for 15
The highest labor board in the country just confirmed fast-food workers’ right to organize.
Mar 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain
And the lengths that Alliance College-Ready Public Schools will go to stop it.
Mar 1, 2016 / George Joseph
Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling
Women do better in class and worse on tests—and there are consequences.
Mar 1, 2016 / Feature / Andrew Hacker
Why Apple Should Cooperate With the FBI Why Apple Should Cooperate With the FBI
Far from serving civil liberties and the public interest, its refusal to do so undermines corporate accountability and civil rights.
Feb 29, 2016 / Bruce Shapiro
Construction Is Dangerous Work Construction Is Dangerous Work
The construction industry accounts for only 4 percent of New York’s jobs but a full fifth of the state’s occupational deaths.
Feb 26, 2016 / Michelle Chen