Insane housing costs in the Golden State have rekindled the tenants’ movement.
Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is a senior fellow at Demos and a writer on social-justice issues. His latest book is The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Don’t Assume Trump’s Bias Is Mere Bluster
How the Republican nominee could bar Muslim immigrants.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Creating a Countercyclical Welfare System
Clinton-era reforms mean that our safety net is weakest when we need it most.
Posted inSpecial Report
May It Please the Court
Problem-solving courts have a track record of lowering recidivism and incarceration costs, but they still don’t reach enough offenders.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Today’s Other America
A large indentured class of workers is struggling to escape debt
rather than build a better life.
Posted inArticle
The Misshapen Mind
Two new books argue that the human brain’s haphazard evolution has left us at the prey of irrational behaviors and self-defeating instincts.
Posted inSpecial Report
A Worthy Diversion
Pennsylvania has developed a model program to keep offenders with mental illness out of the criminal-justice system.
Posted inArticle
Reforming a Prison Nation
Two students of mass incarceration in America discuss the current political moment and the prospects for rolling back the carceral state.
Posted inArticle
Fear and Loathing in Middle America
A new book in the Gonzo journalism vein tries to explain to coastal elites what they’ve never understood about the working-class small towns in the middle of the country.