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
The Postal Service Is Breaking Down The Postal Service Is Breaking Down
Covid-19 has already begun to take its toll on the overextended USPS workforce.
Mar 27, 2020 / Jake Bittle
Bailouts Are Coming. Here’s How to Make Them Fair. Bailouts Are Coming. Here’s How to Make Them Fair.
If we are going to make taxpayers bail out big business, we need to insist that they keep workers on payroll—and pay them fairly.
Mar 26, 2020 / Bryce Covert for The Nation
‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus ‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus
From hospital wards to bus routes to a ventilator plant in Wisconsin, working-class Americans are giving their all.
Mar 26, 2020 / John Nichols
The Coronavirus’s Threat to Democracy Itself The Coronavirus’s Threat to Democracy Itself
Time to enact vote-by-mail.
Mar 24, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Our ‘Honorable’ Members of Congress? Our ‘Honorable’ Members of Congress?
Whether or not Senator Burr and other members violated the Stock Act, why were they in the stock market at all during a pandemic?
Mar 23, 2020 / Bruce Fein
If the UK Can Protect Workers From Covid-19 Layoffs, Why Not the US? If the UK Can Protect Workers From Covid-19 Layoffs, Why Not the US?
House members Rosa DeLauro and Mark Pocan have a plan to keep Americans working.
Mar 21, 2020 / John Nichols
As Low-Income Workers Lose Hours and Jobs, Pressure Mounts to Halt Evictions As Low-Income Workers Lose Hours and Jobs, Pressure Mounts to Halt Evictions
The United States already had an affordable housing crisis before the pandemic hit. Now many more are at risk of homelessness.
Mar 19, 2020 / Bryce Covert
Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19 Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19
We can’t address a pandemic without eliminating economic hurdles to public health.
Mar 13, 2020 / John Nichols
The Judiciary Still Hasn’t Reckoned With Its #MeToo Problem The Judiciary Still Hasn’t Reckoned With Its #MeToo Problem
Thanks to their immense power, federal judges have a license to harass—and no one is trying to stop them.
Mar 13, 2020 / Column / Elie Mystal