Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets? Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets?
Or will her administration stand by as a series of high-profile sporting events turn the city into Doha on the Pacific?
Dec 2, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky
Fast Food Runs in My Family Fast Food Runs in My Family
Me, my mother, and 10 years of the Fight for $15.
Nov 30, 2022 / Vanessa Ogle
¡Compañero Mike Davis, Presente! ¡Compañero Mike Davis, Presente!
A requiem for a friend who embodied the commitment to the marriage of word and deed.
Nov 2, 2022 / Roberto Lovato
10 Years After Sandy, Renters Remain Most Vulnerable to the Impacts of Climate Change 10 Years After Sandy, Renters Remain Most Vulnerable to the Impacts of Climate Change
Since Hurricane Sandy hit the US in 2012, it has become clear that no one is immune to climate disaster. At this point, it's more a question of who has the means to survive it.
Oct 28, 2022 / Lena P. Afridi
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.
Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener
The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination
A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.
Oct 20, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
West Coast Showdown: The Organizer Versus the Oligarch West Coast Showdown: The Organizer Versus the Oligarch
Karen Bass, Rick Caruso, and the race for mayor of Los Angeles.
Oct 20, 2022 / Peter Dreier
Will Democrats Lose the West? Will Democrats Lose the West?
Republicans are running even in crucial races across the region.
Oct 14, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky
Will the California Homelessness Crisis Curtail Gavin Newsom’s Ambitions? Will the California Homelessness Crisis Curtail Gavin Newsom’s Ambitions?
The California governor recently signed two bills making it easier to build affordable housing. But the state's highly visible encampments may undercut his national reputation.
Sep 30, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky
Letters From the September 5/12, 2022, Issue Letters From the September 5/12, 2022, Issue
Housing follies... A tale of two Nations... Protest in a new era...
Aug 23, 2022 / Our Readers