The Democrats Are Finally Running a Teacher. What Took Them So Long? The Democrats Are Finally Running a Teacher. What Took Them So Long?
After decades of serving as a punching bag for the party’s neoliberals, public schools and the people who work in them are back in fashion.
Sep 3, 2024 / Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
The Connecticut Tenants Union Trying to Buy Their Apartment Building The Connecticut Tenants Union Trying to Buy Their Apartment Building
Members of the Blake Street Tenants Union in New Haven see community ownership as critical to preserving affordable housing. Is now the time for widespread tenant control?
Sep 2, 2024 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether
I’m Still Hoping to Vote for Kamala Harris I’m Still Hoping to Vote for Kamala Harris
But the hope I felt when she became the nominee has been curdling into despair over her refusal to allow a Palestinian to address the convention—and her continuing silence on Gaza...
Aug 30, 2024 / Benjamin Moser
Don’t Underestimate Donald Trump’s Coalition of the Weird Don’t Underestimate Donald Trump’s Coalition of the Weird
The GOP’s new league of fringe figures tries to replicate the party’s winning formula of 2016. And it just might work again.
Aug 30, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Oceans Are Heating Up The Oceans Are Heating Up
Coral bleaching is “a canary in the coal mine.”
Aug 30, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
Youth Voter Turnout in NYC Is Struggling. These Organizations Want to Fix It. Youth Voter Turnout in NYC Is Struggling. These Organizations Want to Fix It.
A lack of knowledge about the process—from registration to marking a ballot—is often the main barrier between youth and voting. “If young people sit it out, that will have an impa...
Aug 30, 2024 / StudentNation / Aminata Gueye and Nikole Rajgor
Trumpism Will Outlast Trump Trumpism Will Outlast Trump
We will have to overcome the MAGA project’s attacks on the electoral system even after the November election.
Aug 30, 2024 / Sasha Abramsky
Democrats Held the Most Pro-Union Convention in History. Now, They Must Take That Message on the Road. Democrats Held the Most Pro-Union Convention in History. Now, They Must Take That Message on the Road.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz should learn from what worked at the DNC and make organized labor a central focus of their fall campaigning.
Aug 29, 2024 / John Nichols