The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women
Black women earn just 67 cents for every dollar white men earn.
Aug 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel
The author of a new history of dating talks with Nation advice columnist Liza Featherstone.
Aug 29, 2016 / Q&A / Liza Featherstone
Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom
As the editor of Ramparts, he helped shape the radicalism of the 1960s, and kept on challenging injustice and “professional megabuck politics.”
Aug 26, 2016 / John Nichols
Welfare Was ‘Reformed’ 20 Years Ago This Week. I’ve Suffered the Consequences. Welfare Was ‘Reformed’ 20 Years Ago This Week. I’ve Suffered the Consequences.
And now, House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to build on that disastrous legacy.
Aug 26, 2016 / Stephanie Land
New York’s Nail Salons Are Still Toxic New York’s Nail Salons Are Still Toxic
And salon owners are now protesting new policies that aim to protect workers and consumers from chemical contamination.
Aug 26, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Two Terrible Ideas, on Their Way to History’s Dustbin Two Terrible Ideas, on Their Way to History’s Dustbin
And once they’re gone, we’ll finally be ready to progress on race relations in America.
Aug 26, 2016 / Felicia Wong and Dorian T. Warren
It’s Official: Graduate Students Can Unionize It’s Official: Graduate Students Can Unionize
A landmark ruling has affirmed that graduate students at private universities are workers, and can organize as such.
Aug 24, 2016 / Michelle Chen
There’s a Bigger Problem at the Border Than Trump’s Proposed Wall There’s a Bigger Problem at the Border Than Trump’s Proposed Wall
We live in fear of Trump’s plan for the Mexican border—not realizing that much of it already exists.
Aug 23, 2016 / Todd Miller
A Basic Income Would Upend America’s Work Ethic—and That’s a Good Thing A Basic Income Would Upend America’s Work Ethic—and That’s a Good Thing
Freedom to control our time should lie at the heart of any struggle.
Aug 23, 2016 / Fred Block and Frances Fox Piven
Why Are There So Many Women in Jail? Why Are There So Many Women in Jail?
The number of women in jails has skyrocketed over the past four decades.
Aug 22, 2016 / Michelle Chen