Economics

Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate.

Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate. Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate.

Scenes from a pandemic: 7

May 13, 2020 / José Orduña

Interior of The Strand, a book store in New York

The Ingenuity Keeping Indie Bookstores Going The Ingenuity Keeping Indie Bookstores Going

Amazon and the pandemic have left indie bookstores in a bind. They’re reinventing from the inside out.

May 12, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty

Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty

Here’s the plan Congress must include in stimulus measures to provide muscular support for journalism.

May 12, 2020 / John Nichols

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

The seventh-largest property owner in NYC needs to use its wealth to protect its vulnerable workers, not punish them.

May 12, 2020 / R.H. Lossin and Lexie Cook

Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe

Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe

Instead, the president spent the past week pushing disinformation campaigns and vitriolic attacks against constructive responses to the pandemic.

May 12, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse

Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse

As a teacher, I wonder about the students I’ve been unable to reach and whose faces I never see online.

May 12, 2020 / Belle Chesler

Atlas Capital protest

Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive

Direct action and inclusivity are driving the new Asian American movement.

May 11, 2020 / Promise Li and Esther K

Sign reading

One Hospital System’s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting. One Hospital System’s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting.

Administrators across the country are increasingly turning to anti-labor consultants to fend off nurses’ unions.

May 11, 2020 / P.E. Moskowitz

Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru’s Cities

Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru’s Cities Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru’s Cities

On the streets of Lima, hundreds of thousands of people have started walking back to their hometowns. 

May 11, 2020 / Photo Essay / Musuk Nolte, The Nation, and Magnum Foundation

‘Mass Unemployment Is a Policy Choice’

‘Mass Unemployment Is a Policy Choice’ ‘Mass Unemployment Is a Policy Choice’

As unemployment reaches Depression-era levels, Pramila Jayapal has a plan that responds with a New Deal–level of urgency.

May 8, 2020 / John Nichols

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