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Sarah-Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center, covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. She is the author of the book, Necessary Trouble: America's New Radicals (Nation Books/2016).

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A Trump 2020 sign displayed in front of an abandoned supply business along a highway in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Amy Lutz, courtesy of Shutterstock)

Despite Trump's 'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs' Bluster, the Rust Belt Is Still Reeling from Plant Closures

Chuckie Denison fought the closure of a GM factory in Lordstown, Ohio—now, he’s devoted himself to challenging the President’s lies about America’s economic recovery.

Sarah Jaffe ·

The smoldering wreckage of a former Chase Bank in La Mesa, California, May 31, 2020. (Photo: CC)

U.S. Capitalism Is in Total Meltdown

The COVID-19 pandemic is like Hurricane Katrina, but for the entire country. And things are only going to get worse.

Sarah Jaffe ·

Despite the halt on legal eviction processes, landlords often find other ways to pressure tenants out of their homes, but renter organizing can have a powerful effect. (Photo:Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images)

Evictions Aren’t Inevitable When Tenants Fight Back

As the housing crisis deepens, renters find strength in solidarity.

Sarah Jaffe ·

A memorial to those killed in the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Andrea Hank)

After a String of Antisemitic Attacks, a Choice Confronts all Jews

A surge of antisemitism has left us wondering where we can turn, to induce the feeling that rather than exercising solidarity, we should turn inward.

Sarah Jaffe ·

Progressive campaigns must reach the working class everywhere it lives—in deindustrialized smaller towns as well as the biggest cities—and they must do more than make promises or show up at election time. (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Images/Getty Images)

Even in Defeat, Labour Mobilized the New Working Class

The U.K. election demonstrated the urgent need for grassroots organizing.

Sarah Jaffe ·

Trump-style politics, and particularly American-style privatized healthcare, are the bogeymen of the U.K. election. (Photo: The Progressive)

What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care

Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea.

Sarah Jaffe ·

Nonprofit managers are caught between the desires of funders—whose funds come from the very exploitation that the nonprofit may be trying to combat—and their own staff. (Photo: @Teamsters/Twitter)

Nonprofit Workers Join the Movement to Unionize

Increasing numbers of people in mission- and passion-driven fields are waking up to the fact that they are, despite the trappings of middle-class-ness, still workers doing a job.

Sarah Jaffe ·

The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London killed seventy-two people. (Photo: Natalie Oxford)

As the World Burns

Catastrophes in the Amazon and elsewhere are flash points for the larger, ongoing crisis that claims lives in less spectacular fashion—one that sees life itself as expendable.

Sarah Jaffe ·

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