’Tis the Season to Talk About Student Debt Cancellation ’Tis the Season to Talk About Student Debt Cancellation
If your family has questions about Biden’s student loan debt relief over the holidays, here’s how you can respond.
Dec 15, 2022 / StudentNation / Ian Franza and Sean Tonra
The Rise of the Year-Round Wildfire The Rise of the Year-Round Wildfire
Humanity may already have passed the point of simply managing ourselves out of the fiery apocalypse scientists predict we’re heading for.
Dec 15, 2022 / Jane Braxton Little
The Contradictions of Adam Smith The Contradictions of Adam Smith
A conversation with Glory Liu about the thinker's influence on American politics, the many ways his work has been misunderstood, and why we remember Smith as a champion of capitali...
Dec 14, 2022 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
I’m a Rail Worker, and Biden Screwed Us I’m a Rail Worker, and Biden Screwed Us
We can either deny rail carriers our labor in defiance of long-established laws, or we stand still and keep eating their punches.
Dec 13, 2022 / John Tormey
California Workers Are Standing Up to the Fast-Food Industry’s Attacks on Their Rights California Workers Are Standing Up to the Fast-Food Industry’s Attacks on Their Rights
A decade-long organizing fight shows its power.
Dec 12, 2022 / Michael Tubbs
AI Comes for the Writers AI Comes for the Writers
It's long been assumed that truck drivers' jobs would be first on the chopping block. Not anymore.
Dec 12, 2022 / McCaffrey Blauner
How the Left Was Lost in the 1990s—but Found Its Way Again How the Left Was Lost in the 1990s—but Found Its Way Again
In the 1990s, the left was embattled and diminished. But it kept the flame burning just enough for a new generation to come along and give it oxygen.
Dec 12, 2022 / Feature / Naomi Klein
The Rise and Fall of the Mall The Rise and Fall of the Mall
Alexandra Lange's Meet Me by the Fountain recovers the forgotten past and the still hopeful future of the American shopping mall.
Dec 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Backman
Kyrsten Sinema Formally Enrolls in the Party of Wall Street and Big Pharma Kyrsten Sinema Formally Enrolls in the Party of Wall Street and Big Pharma
The senator's switch to "independent" aligns her more completely with the special interests that she has so diligently represented since coming to the chamber.
Dec 9, 2022 / John Nichols
It’s Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam It’s Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam
It is long past time for Congress to give consumers better information about their health care options.
Dec 9, 2022 / Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Mark Pocan, and Wendell Potter