Inequality

Stockton, CA

Starting From Stockton Starting From Stockton

What this small California city can teach America about basic income.

Nov 17, 2020 / David Kirp

What Bernie Sanders Could Do as Secretary of Labor

What Bernie Sanders Could Do as Secretary of Labor What Bernie Sanders Could Do as Secretary of Labor

If Biden were to embrace the idea, Sanders and a team of visionary leaders could forge a new New Deal for working Americans.

Nov 16, 2020 / John Nichols

A woman with pink hair wearing a mask that says

2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’ 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

Democrats’ failure to address the issue of economic precarity undermines their claim to be the party of the working class.

Nov 13, 2020 / Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback

Can American Labor Survive Prop 22?

Can American Labor Survive Prop 22? Can American Labor Survive Prop 22?

The California ballot measure could be the most radical undoing of labor legislation since Taft-Hartley.

Nov 10, 2020 / Wilfred Chan

Progressives Are an Asset for the Democratic Party. It Should Treat Them That Way.

Progressives Are an Asset for the Democratic Party. It Should Treat Them That Way. Progressives Are an Asset for the Democratic Party. It Should Treat Them That Way.

Democratic progressives are not an isolated fringe—and their ideas are popular. The party should not run away from them.

Nov 10, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing

Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing

Portraits of the activists, organizers, artists, and more who call the Lower East Side’s public housing home.

Nov 10, 2020 / Photo Essay / Destiny Mata and Magnum Foundation

Our Fight Can’t Stop After This Election

Our Fight Can’t Stop After This Election Our Fight Can’t Stop After This Election

It’s only once we’ve won, whether that’s now or four years from now, that the real work begins.

Nov 6, 2020 / Rebecca Gordon

‘You Have to Listen to the Streets’: Rebel Diaz on Hip Hop and the Chilean Constitution

‘You Have to Listen to the Streets’: Rebel Diaz on Hip Hop and the Chilean Constitution ‘You Have to Listen to the Streets’: Rebel Diaz on Hip Hop and the Chilean Constitution

Brothers Rodrigo “RodStarz” and Gonzalo “G1” Venegas, who make up Rebel Diaz, discuss the role of art and music in Chilean activism.

Nov 5, 2020 / Q&A / Jack Delaney

Era of Large Numbers

Why a Biden Administration Needs to Spend Big Why a Biden Administration Needs to Spend Big

Democrats must embrace massive infrastructure projects, giant deficits, and a high debt-to-GDP ratio.

Nov 2, 2020 / Mike Konczal

Trevor Lawrence

College Football’s Great Defender Has Covid-19 College Football’s Great Defender Has Covid-19

The people in power who used Trevor Lawrence as a stalking horse for their own profit motives should be ashamed.

Oct 31, 2020 / StudentNation / Dave Zirin

x