Inequality

Mass incarceration

Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Our Democracy in the Worst Ways Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Our Democracy in the Worst Ways

Congressman Mark Pocan just got the House to approve an end to Census counts that distort representation at local and state levels.

Mar 8, 2019 / John Nichols

Romania International Women's Day

What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day

Over the last year, women’s rights took one step back, and two steps forward.

Mar 8, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Mike Oliver

In Memoriam: Mike Oliver In Memoriam: Mike Oliver

The British sociologist revolutionized the field of disability studies. 

Mar 8, 2019 / Ravi Malhotra

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

A CFPB Official Who Quit in Protest Will Testify About the Bureau’s ‘Incompetence’ A CFPB Official Who Quit in Protest Will Testify About the Bureau’s ‘Incompetence’

Seth Frotman has tough words for CFPB’s political leadership, and big ideas on how to solve the student-debt crisis. 

Mar 7, 2019 / George Zornick

A homeless child

We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It? We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It?

A new report outlines how to help millions of US children living in poverty. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Has Feelings, Too! Bernie Has Feelings, Too!

Democrats have borrowed liberally from Sanders’s policy book. The one thing they can't claim? His life story. 

Mar 4, 2019 / Matthew Zeitlin

Richard Gottfried

Richard Gottfried’s Health-Care Crusade Is Paying Off Richard Gottfried’s Health-Care Crusade Is Paying Off

The NY State Assembly member has spent 27 years advocating for statewide health care. Now, his colleagues in Albany are finally catching up.

Mar 1, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz

Puerto Rican Students

Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That

They demand that the university cancel its holdings in the Puerto Rican debt and divest from the fossil-fuel industry.

Mar 1, 2019 / StudentNation / Adriana Colón-Adorno and Alejandro Comas-Short

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.

Mar 1, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Mariah Parker, new Athens, GA county commissioner

Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self

The 27-year-old Athens, Georgia, county commissioner leans into her humanity as she fights for social justice.

Mar 1, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Aaron Ross Coleman

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