How Mona Chalabi Explains Income Inequality How Mona Chalabi Explains Income Inequality
An interview with the data journalist about how she uses numbers and design to illustrate how class weighs on the lives of Americans.
Nov 10, 2026 / Q&A / Naomi Elias
The EEOC Is Failing Workers While Hunting for Discrimination Claims From White Men The EEOC Is Failing Workers While Hunting for Discrimination Claims From White Men
Investigators are rapidly closing out claims of workplace discrimination so that they can search for the kinds of cases chair Andrea Lucas most wants to find.
Nov 10, 2026 / Bryce Covert
How Did New York Become So Unequal? How Did New York Become So Unequal?
A new history of New York examines how it went from a center of social-democratic experiment to one of neoliberal devastation.
Nov 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Joshua B. Freeman
2028 Democratic Hopefuls Take on Data Centers 2028 Democratic Hopefuls Take on Data Centers
Data center opposition can foster a bigger Democratic tent by aligning red and blue, and rural and urban communities.
Oct 14, 2026 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen
France’s Students Won’t Back Down France’s Students Won’t Back Down
Without full-time teachers, temperature-regulated classrooms, or school nurses, French students are turning their grievances into a national movement.
Oct 13, 2026 / StudentNation / Diana Sophia Cordoba
How I Fell Through the Cracks at Facebook How I Fell Through the Cracks at Facebook
A chronic illness forced me out of my software engineering job. What would have helped me most was a workplace union.
Oct 10, 2026 / Natalie Mead
“I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE “I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE
After the federal firings, Black women felt betrayed and disillusioned. One longtime federal worker learned from experience the importance of community.
Oct 9, 2026 / Lottie Joiner
Recovering From a “Gut Punch”: Black Women Fired by Trump and Musk Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame Recovering From a “Gut Punch”: Black Women Fired by Trump and Musk Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame
Black women working for the federal government did what they were supposed to do. Yet their achievements could not protect them from the political winds.
Oct 8, 2026 / Lottie Joiner
How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business
The Ellison family’s $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery means more top-down control, and less room for dissent.
Oct 8, 2026 / Ben Schwartz
The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE
Trump’s federal workforce cuts dismantled a job pipeline for Washington, DC’s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up that community.
Oct 7, 2026 / Lottie Joiner