Inequality

Carol Joyner

Jobs for Men but Not for Women? Jobs for Men but Not for Women?

Though sex-based discrimination is no longer legal, it still structures American employment. Passing the Build Back Better bill could finally change that.

Dec 14, 2021 / Elizabeth Gregory

How the Taxi Workers Won

How the Taxi Workers Won How the Taxi Workers Won

The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry.

Dec 13, 2021 / Feature / Molly Crabapple

What We Get Wrong About Adoption

What We Get Wrong About Adoption What We Get Wrong About Adoption

Activists and political leaders promote adoption as a social good, looking past the complex experiences of adoptees and the parents who relinquish them.

Dec 7, 2021 / Gretchen Sisson and Jessica M. Harrison

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The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking

And it hasn’t had this kind of opportunity for global expansion since fascism’s heyday in the 1930s.

Dec 7, 2021 / John Feffer

Recycled Cans NYC

My Parents Collect Cans for a Living My Parents Collect Cans for a Living

When people ask about my family now, I tell them not with embarrassment or shame but with pride.

Dec 7, 2021 / StudentNation / Jessica Yauri

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The Reconstruction of Gaza Has Been a Failure The Reconstruction of Gaza Has Been a Failure

The 2014 plan has largely institutionalized Israel’s control of the region and failed Gazans.

Dec 3, 2021 / Ariel Gold

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How Much Could a Banana Republic Cost? How Much Could a Banana Republic Cost?

In a first attempt to determine who really runs the world, a look at the royal families of old.

Dec 2, 2021 / Olúfémi O. Táíwò

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The Staggeringly High Price of a Prison Phone Call The Staggeringly High Price of a Prison Phone Call

It’s outrageous that a billion-dollar industry exists based on skimming profits from some of society’s most vulnerable people.

Nov 30, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Paperwork Keeps People Poor

Paperwork Keeps People Poor Paperwork Keeps People Poor

It would be a huge mistake for Democrats to embrace harsh work requirements once again.

Nov 29, 2021 / Bryce Covert

Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados

At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark

The new focus on equity in the climate movement will keep the pressure where it belongs: on the Global North.

Nov 29, 2021 / Tina Gerhardt for The Nation

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