Politicians Don’t Want to Talk About Poverty
Politicians love to talk about helping and growing the middle class while utterly ignoring the millions of American families living in poverty.
Politicians love to talk about helping and growing the middle class while utterly ignoring the millions of American families living in poverty.
In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today.
Labor studies professor Eric Blanc explains why worker-to-worker organizing is critical to fighting Trumpism and building a more just society in the long term.
From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents.
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