Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute and the co-host of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast. Her book, Necessary Trouble: America's New Radicals, is due out from Nation Books in August 2016. Follow her on Twitter: @sarahljaffe.
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Views Wednesday, February 01, 2017 After the Apocalypse: Trying to Describe Reality in Unreal Times Since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, I’ve seen several photos of chalkboards in front of bookstores, reading something along the lines of, “Dystopian Fiction Has Now Been Moved to Current Events.” It’s a good joke, and one that gets a lot of clicks and reposts on Facebook and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Standing Firm at Standing Rock: Why the Struggle is Bigger Than One Pipeline The first sign that not everything is normal as you drive down Highway 1806 toward the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota is a checkpoint manned by camouflage-clad National Guard troops. The inspection on Sept. 13 was perfunctory; they simply asked if we knew “what was going on down the road... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 23, 2016 Trickle Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races At a press event in Kingston, New York, a Hudson Valley community about 90 miles north of Manhattan, the local Democratic congressional candidate, Zephyr Teachout , earlier this month called for a debate. But not with her Republican opponent, John Faso . Instead she issued the challenge to two high... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 08, 2016 ‘We Triggered Something Epic’: The Fight for $15 and Beyond When Naquasia LeGrand first got involved with the Fight for $15 workers’ movement, it was, she says, “underground.” No one, least of all her, knew how far the movement would spread in the four years since she helped launch the first fast-food workers’ strike, in New York City in November 2012. New... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 14, 2016 Is What’s Good For Facebook Not So Good For Democracy? Around the country, thousands have returned to the streets again to protest the deaths of black people at the hands of the police. One of those deaths, the shooting of 32-year-old Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, was broadcast on Facebook Live by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 01, 2016 Why the Verizon Worker's Victory is A Big Deal Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the unions that represent the Verizon workers, hailed the contract as a victory, citing its creation... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 01, 2014 Why Harris and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women Retail sales and home healthcare work are two of the three fastest-growing jobs in this country. That’s an important consideration when looking at the decisions the Supreme Court handed down today in Harris v. Quinn and Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Hobby Lobby Stores : If you... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 21, 2013 When There’s a Fee to Get Your Pay In the years since the financial crisis struck in 2008, it’s often been pointed out that gains for bankers have gone hand in hand with losses for workers. Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 28, 2013 New York Didn’t Pull a Chicago, But Dissident Teachers Aren’t Giving Up The United Federation of Teachers, the union that represents some 200,000 New York City teachers and public school workers, re-elected its president, Michael Mulgrew, and his Unity caucus to another term on Thursday, April 25. Read more |
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Views Monday, December 10, 2012 Occupy and the Police Needn't be Enemies – as Sandy Showed Ninety-nine people arrested during Occupy Wall Street's 17 September anniversary actions had their court dates last week. They trooped into the courthouse accompanied by green-hatted legal observers and National Lawyers Guild representatives, and faced the judge. Their charges mostly boiled down to "being part of a public protest". Read more |