Detroit Is More Than Just a Melting Pot
Co-published with The Nation. With a storied legacy of collective organizing, the future of the working class can still be found in the Motor City.
Were You Better Off Four Years Ago? Seven US Voters Weigh Their Options
Co-published with The Guardian. This presidential election may come down to one question: whether Americans feel stress about their budgets.
On the Front Lines of Florida’s Abortion Wars
Co-published with The Nation, Le Temps and Magnum Photos. With reproductive rights on the ballot, tensions are higher than ever in abortion-clinic parking lots.
What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio
Co-published with The Nation and Magnum Photos. After Trump and Vance spread unfounded claims about Haitian migrants in the small town, this photographer went to see who and what are really there.
North Idaho College Was Taken Over By the Far-Right — It’s a Warning for the Future of Higher Ed
Co-published with Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A far-right attack on North Idaho College, a popular community college, reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed.
What Kamala Harris’ Rhetoric About McDonald’s Reveals About Democrats’ Shifting Views on Poverty
Co-published with TIME. Harris' rhetoric about working at McDonald's shows how Democrats have rethought their 1990s emphasis on fast food jobs.
Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux
Co-published with Literary Hub. Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the power of the French sociological memoir.
Would Kamala Harris Be Our First Gen X President?
Co-published with Rolling Stone. Harris was born a month away from Gen X. But she is Gen X in her personal style and in the ways in which she is read — and misread — by her
JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives
Co-published with Literary Hub. Alissa Quart on the Art of the Deal of the Hillbilly.
The Working Man and the Company Store
Co-published with The New Yorker. Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics?
Will Arizona’s Relentless Republican Gerrymander Decide the 2024 Presidential Election?
Co-published with Salon. Arizona Republicans have worked long and hard to lock down a majority — and seize power over the state's electors.
