Covid-19 Shows America’s Class Divide Is Untenable Covid-19 Shows America’s Class Divide Is Untenable
The disparity in who has access to coronavirus tests is just the beginning.
Apr 1, 2020 / Shuja Haider
Our Public Servants Maintain Normalcy by Being Regular Incompetent Our Public Servants Maintain Normalcy by Being Regular Incompetent
Coronavirus’s impact on American lives deepens.
Mar 31, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
12 Coronavirus Funds That Will Help the Most Vulnerable 12 Coronavirus Funds That Will Help the Most Vulnerable
The stimulus package won’t reach everyone who needs help right now.
Mar 27, 2020 / Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
This Is What an Opposition Party Is Supposed to Sound Like This Is What an Opposition Party Is Supposed to Sound Like
Bernie Sanders’s moral outrage and devastating sarcasm struck back against a GOP assault on poor and low-income workers.
Mar 27, 2020 / John Nichols
Thomas Piketty: Confronting Our Long History of Massive Inequality Thomas Piketty: Confronting Our Long History of Massive Inequality
We talked to the French economist about his new book Capital and Ideology, his thoughts on Covid-19, and more.
Mar 26, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Making a Guaranteed Income More Likely Than Ever Before The Coronavirus Crisis Is Making a Guaranteed Income More Likely Than Ever Before
Republicans are pushing through a means-tested, non-universal cash assistance bill. Our podcast explains why that’s a mistake.
Mar 23, 2020 / Francis Reynolds
Amid a Pandemic, Target Employees Work in Fear Amid a Pandemic, Target Employees Work in Fear
Target and many other big retailers have yet to provide paid sick leave, endangering workers and customers.
Mar 19, 2020 / P.E. Moskowitz
Sara Nelson Says People Are Ready for Solidarity Sara Nelson Says People Are Ready for Solidarity
The president of the Association of Flight Attendants tells Sarah Jaffe that the pandemic reveals what unions already know: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”
Mar 18, 2020 / Q&A / Sarah Jaffe
The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility
Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus! The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus!
The invisible hand is in control of this pandemic.
Mar 17, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow