Tag: Poverty

Rev. William J. Barber II on civil disobedience, the failures of electoral campaigns, and why the South is key to a political transformation of the country.

Taking better care of homeless retirees is part of feminism’s next big challenge.

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an aberration. U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but his logic is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

Critics of raising the minimum wage claim that it decreases employment, but they are missing the larger point.

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

Sujatha Gidla, born an untouchable in India, tells the story of her family.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore.

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

A basic income that supplemented existing welfare structures could make everyone safer while ending the most pernicious forms of policing.

Recipients of basic income continue to work, spend less on vice, and are able to invest in long-term plans.

Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.