interviews

In July, Hector Figueroa, the revered head of the powerful New York labor union SEIU 32BJ, died of a heart attack.…

The left-wing freshman Democrats who garner so much attention in Congress have a counterpart in the Pennsylvania…

Larry Krasner, one of America’s most fiery advocates for criminal justice reform, was elected district attorney of…

Ro Khanna, the second-term Democratic Congressman from Silicon Valley and a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’…

There is an argument to be made—a plausible argument, even a strong argument—that the political environment is ripe…

New York City Councilman Brad Lander recently introduced a landmark bill—the first of its kind in the country—that…

New Orleans is home to more than 1,300 homeless people. Everybody has a story.

Sara Nelson, the leader of the Association of Flight Attendants, gave a speech this week calling for a general strike

Since 2001, the Innocence Project New Orleans [IPNO] has freed 33 innocent people from spending their lives in…

Our nation’s teachers unions have had a whiplash of a year, from the statewide teachers’ strikes that have swept the…

It feels like America’s working class has been losing the class war for as long as we can remember. But it has one…

This month, Thea Lee took over as president of the Economic Policy Institute, America’s premier left-wing economic…

This week, as hundreds of women made public their experiences of harassment and abuse, I interviewed the man who…

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark. The median white family has somewhere between…

Our arguments over anti-fascist violence today are absurd in comparison to what happened in the 1930s, when…

In 2011, historian Corey Robin published The Conservative Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. In…

The most powerful labor leader in America is facing declining membership and the most hostile presidential…

With more than 1.6 million members, AFSCME is the nation’s biggest union of public employees, and one of the most…

Paul Niehaus is the cofounder and president of GiveDirectly, a direct cash transfer program rated as one of the most …

Jose Antonio Vargas started out his career as a journalist, but since revealing his immigration status in a 2011 New…