The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate
In supporting a free-trade deal with Colombia, she claimed workers there would have better rights than Americans. Does that include being murdered by death squads?
Mar 4, 2016 / Greg Grandin
There Goes the Neighborhood: What We Really Mean When We Say ‘Gentrification’ There Goes the Neighborhood: What We Really Mean When We Say ‘Gentrification’
A new podcast series in partnership with WNYC.
Mar 2, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright and There Goes the Neighborhood
The Big Lie at the Heart of the Texas Abortion Clinic Case The Big Lie at the Heart of the Texas Abortion Clinic Case
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the first significant test of abortion rights in a decade.
Mar 1, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform
As poor people suffer without a safety net, it’s time for the two Democratic candidates to start talking about restoring the welfare system.
Mar 1, 2016 / Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
Some Good News in the Fight for 15 Some Good News in the Fight for 15
The highest labor board in the country just confirmed fast-food workers’ right to organize.
Mar 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Construction Is Dangerous Work Construction Is Dangerous Work
The construction industry accounts for only 4 percent of New York’s jobs but a full fifth of the state’s occupational deaths.
Feb 26, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Let Them Eat Missiles, and Other Myths of the American War Machine Let Them Eat Missiles, and Other Myths of the American War Machine
The problem with US military strategy is that it doesn’t fix any of the problems it’s setting out to address.
Feb 25, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt
Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders? Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?
Four historians consider how the Democratic candidates fit within the history of the Progressive tradition.
Feb 24, 2016 / Kim Phillips-Fein, Charles Postel, Robert Greene II, and Michael Kazin
The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016 The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016
The challenge for any Democratic candidate is to learn—and learn fast—that he or she must be the candidate of fundamental change, not the candidate of continuity.
Feb 23, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A New Study Suggests Even the Toughest Pesticide Regulations Aren’t Nearly Tough Enough A New Study Suggests Even the Toughest Pesticide Regulations Aren’t Nearly Tough Enough
As in most states, regulators in California measure the effect of only one pesticide at a time. But farmers often use several pesticides together—and that’s a big, toxic problem.
Feb 23, 2016 / Liza Gross