Covid Cut the Red Tape for Welfare Benefits. Let’s Keep It That Way.
Co-published with The Washington Post. It’s usually not a glitch when qualified applicants have a hard time accessing aid they need. That’s how the system was designed.
How the Taxi Workers Won
Co-published with The Nation. A celebratory look at the 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed …
Jen Fitzgerald: A Poet Without a Home
Co-published with The Nation. As the pandemic closed down New York City, Fitzgerald found her daughter and herself priced out of a place to live.
There’s a Term for the Avalanche of Paperwork We All Deal With
Co-published with The Nation. When Lisa Ventura’s father needed help filing for unemployment, she got an overload of what experts call “administrative burden.”
Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Amid the 1840s economic crisis, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The remarkable movement that rose to challenge …
Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power
Co-published with Mother Jones and Nonprofit Quarterly. What does it look like when ordinary people are their own bosses?
The Dark Side of America’s Gleaming Skyscrapers
Co-published with The Atlantic. Immigrant laborers have been dying tragic, sometimes grisly deaths on construction sites across the country. Their deaths tell the story of an industry indifferent …
Indigenous Cultures Take Root in New York
Co-published with The Nation. The traditional systems of mutual support that undergird many Indigenous Central American cultures have formed a safety net during a very dark …
New York Tenants Are Organizing Against Evictions as They Did in the Great Depression
Co-published with Retro Report and THE CITY. Anticipating a massive wave of evictions when the federal and state bans are lifted in January, …
Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing
Co-published with The Nation. Portraits of the activists, organizers, artists, and more who call the Lower East Side’s public housing home.
New York Home Care Workers Challenge Their Union to End 24-Hour Shifts
Co-published with Prism. In New York, home care workers are demanding the abolition of the grueling 24-hour shift and accusing one of America's largest unions of not …
First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future
Co-published with The Nation. Not old enough to vote in 2016, these young voters of color are ready to fight for the world they want to …