The Twitter User Taking on the Chinese Government The Twitter User Taking on the Chinese Government
“Teacher Li” has become a one-person news outlet and a crucial source of information about the protests in China for those both inside and outside the Great Firewall.
Dec 6, 2022 / Han Zhang
How Houston Halved Homelessness—and What California Can Learn From It How Houston Halved Homelessness—and What California Can Learn From It
Houston, like California, follows the Housing First model, but Texas’s most populous city has a vast supply of low-cost homes.
Dec 6, 2022 / Ned Resnikoff
Barack Obama’s Politics 101: Ridiculing Republicans Works Barack Obama’s Politics 101: Ridiculing Republicans Works
The former president is still the ablest campaigner the Democrats have, as his takedown of Herschel Walker’s vampire-vs.-werewolf rumination proved.
Dec 6, 2022 / John Nichols
Time to Turn Up the Pressure on the University of California Decision-Makers Time to Turn Up the Pressure on the University of California Decision-Makers
A union member’s view of the biggest strike in the country.
Dec 5, 2022 / StudentNation / Jane McAlevey
Georgia Democrats Are Going Into Overdrive to Reelect Raphael Warnock Georgia Democrats Are Going Into Overdrive to Reelect Raphael Warnock
And GOP opponent Herschel Walker is giving them a hand. But don’t ignore the way voter suppression made this harder.
Dec 5, 2022 / Joan Walsh
Staughton Lynd Never Lost the Courage of His Convictions Staughton Lynd Never Lost the Courage of His Convictions
The historian and activist, who died last month, paid a steep price for his commitments. Yet he managed to find a way to keep agitating, and keep writing, while always remaining tr...
Dec 5, 2022 / Joshua Freeman
After 3 Decades, Yale Graduate Workers Are Finally Unionizing After 3 Decades, Yale Graduate Workers Are Finally Unionizing
It’s been 34 years since grad students at Yale University first tried to organize. Now, these workers are on the cusp of forming a labor union.
Dec 5, 2022 / StudentNation / Yash Roy
Kanye West, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Mainstreaming of Nazism Kanye West, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Mainstreaming of Nazism
MAGA and cowardly Republicans are whitewashing Hitler fans.
Dec 2, 2022 / Jeet Heer