For Afro-Colombians, the 2016 Peace Treaty Brought No Peace For Afro-Colombians, the 2016 Peace Treaty Brought No Peace
Hundreds of human-rights defenders have been killed since the accords. And Afro-Colombians like Goldman Environmental Prize–winner Francia Márquez are a particular target.
May 23, 2019 / Roosbelinda Cárdenas
The Politics of Going to the Bathroom The Politics of Going to the Bathroom
Access to adequate restrooms is a fundamental necessity for everyone, but it’s harder to come by the less structural power you have.
May 23, 2019 / Natalie Shure
Bernie’s Plan to Save Public Schools Bernie’s Plan to Save Public Schools
Sanders has the most progressive education platform in modern American history.
May 20, 2019 / Editorial / Nikhil Goyal
Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back
For the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, radical politics starts in the workplace.
May 10, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Sarah Jaffe
It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda
The failures of the education-reform movement have created an opportunity for the left. We need to seize it.
Apr 29, 2019 / Pedro Noguera
Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back. Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back.
Laid-off retail workers are demanding severance, labor protections—and an end to the Wall Street playbook of owning a company while hollowing it out.
Apr 23, 2019 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Israel Was Built on the Backs of Palestinian Laborers Israel Was Built on the Backs of Palestinian Laborers
Marginalized Arab workers have always done the physical work of building the Jewish “national home.”
Apr 19, 2019 / Andrew Ross
Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration
The little-known legal loophole rigs the game against working people, and this grassroots group of law students are working to combat it.
Apr 15, 2019 / StudentNation / Sejal Singh and Andre Manuel
Women Will Face Disproportionately Negative Consequences from AI Women Will Face Disproportionately Negative Consequences from AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our economy, making it more important than ever to empower the most vulnerable workers
Apr 12, 2019 / Michelle Chen
Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos
The New Me and other recent novels use millennial tropes as shortcuts to generational fatigue.
Apr 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Bloom