SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’
American South
Posted inPolitics
Best of 2024: Janie Ekere
Before her tragic passing, our writing fellow focused on rural Americans, marginalized communities, and the swing state she called home.
Posted inBooks
Palestine, Writing, and Everything Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters
Posted inWorking in America
SEIU Works the South
The union’s organizing summit in North Carolina was part of its $200 million investment to mobilize working people to vote ahead of the 2024 election.
Posted inWorking in America
How to Respond to a Blackmailing CEO
U.S. Steel’s David Burritt threatens to flatten Pittsburgh. Where’s the (Democratic) indignation?
Posted inWorking in America
Waffle House Workers Challenge the Southern Economy
One union chips away at the vestiges of Jim Crow–era labor policies.
Posted inTAP
Louisiana Hangs Ten
Today on TAP: A law signed yesterday mandates displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom. First Amendment? Feh!
Posted inTAP
Teachers in the South Go Union
Today on TAP: It’s not just autoworkers who are unionizing in the non-union South. In Virginia, schoolteachers are successfully organizing, too.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
‘Mississippi Justice,’ American Shame
We still need federal intervention to drag some jurisdictions out of Jim Crow–era policing.