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Author: Eleni Schirmer

Eleni Schirmer is a writer and a research associate with the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also organizes with the Debt Collective.

Co-published with The Nation. The Nation’s strikes correspondent was happy to be profiled in The New Yorker. There was just one problem: She didn’t want any mention of her terminal illness.

Co-published with The Nation. Pronouncing debt cancellation DOA takes the Supreme Court’s ruling as the last word—precisely at the moment when the court’s authority demands challenge, not complacency.

Co-published with The New Yorker. For a 91-year-old law-school graduate, the Department of Education discharged more than three hundred thousand dollars in student debt. Could relief be that simple?

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