We’re California Graduate Students, and We’re Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore We’re California Graduate Students, and We’re Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore
It’s time for a wildcat strike.
Feb 10, 2020 / StudentNation / UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers
Why Doctors Are Fighting Their Professional Organization Over Medicare for All Why Doctors Are Fighting Their Professional Organization Over Medicare for All
Calls for single-payer are coming from outside the American Medical Association—and show that doctors are not a single class of workers with a unified political view.
Feb 6, 2020 / Danielle Carr
Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children
One in five American children live in poverty, even as pundits tout employment highs.
Feb 4, 2020 / Rajan Menon
The Art of Eviction The Art of Eviction
How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Feb 3, 2020 / Feature / Joshua Hunt
The Super Bowl Is a Grift of Epic Proportions The Super Bowl Is a Grift of Epic Proportions
While the wealthy party during Super Bowl week, a heist is happening in plain sight.
Jan 31, 2020 / Dave Zirin
How a Collective of Mothers Flipped the Script on Housing How a Collective of Mothers Flipped the Script on Housing
When the group Moms 4 Housing occupied a vacant house in West Oakland, they were confronting a system designed to exclude them.
Jan 24, 2020 / Jonny Coleman
How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail. How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail.
The move proves that revolutionary change is possible.
Jan 24, 2020 / John Nichols
Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad
We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics.
Jan 22, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough? Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
In Goliath, Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions o...
Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day
Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
Jan 17, 2020 / Mark Engler