Stories by Sarah Jaffe

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Posted on: Jul 1, 2013, Source: Jacobin

We need a rekindled labor movement that will challenge our fixed ideas about what is work and who should do it.

Posted on: Mar 1, 2013, Source: RH Reality Check

Christine Quinn was once the great feminist hope to lead the nation's leading city. But her opposition to paid sick leave hurts women most.

Posted on: Feb 1, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Tests based on junk science have pushed Seattle's teachers to the edge.

Posted on: Dec 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Some of the smartest organizers and thinkers we know give us their suggestions on how to build a reinvigorated, vibrant labor movement.

Posted on: Nov 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Jane McAlevey talks about her new book "Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)" about how to organize the right way and how big labor gets it wrong.

Posted on: Nov 26, 2012, Source: Religion Dispatches

The nation's largest employer has long been the Holy Grail for labor organizers, seemingly impossible to organize -- until now.

Posted on: Oct 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The race for the Massachusetts Senate seat is a tale of two populists: one with the economic policy chops, the other with a pickup truck.

Posted on: Oct 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

First, the big banks create debt. Then they get paid to collect it.

Posted on: Oct 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The Washington Post reveals how lawmakers personally benefit from legislation they pass.

Posted on: Oct 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Voters will decide whether or not Romney gets to fire Big Bird, but this is certainly not the first time right-wingers have painted a target on a fictional character.

Posted on: Oct 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Researchers have created malware for Android smartphones that can remotely take over your phone's camera and use it to spy on you.

Posted on: Oct 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

From Tammy Baldwin's race to become the first openly gay senator to a Massachusetts Republican, this year could be a historic one for LGBTQ politicians.

Posted on: Oct 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

New York's attorney general files a lawsuit against the big bank for securities fraud--but where's the federal mortgage task force? Is this just a political gesture or a real first step?

Posted on: Sep 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Those white working-class voters that supposedly won't support Obama? They have him up by 8 points in the polls.

Posted on: Sep 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Government programs are helping ease poverty in red states, despite the GOP's best efforts.

Posted on: Sep 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Sports labor battles result in some of the only nationwide, well-publicized discussions of union negotiations and union busting.

Posted on: Sep 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet

How the language of a protest movement found its way into the fall TV lineup--and why it matters.

Posted on: Sep 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Here's our on-the-ground reporting from the East and West coasts.

Posted on: Sep 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

What started as a couple hundred people in a park with no plan has turned into a decentralized, distributed network of activists.

Posted on: Sep 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Posted on: Sep 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet

If groups like Working America can build an awareness of economic issues among swing voters, it could be a game-changer.

Posted on: Sep 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Chicago's teacher strike is shaping up to be one of the most important labor actions in a generation. So why are people who consider themselves progressives siding with the bosses?

Posted on: Sep 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

There are plenty of Democrats out there running on actual progressive issues, yet going all but unnoticed nationally. Here are a few worth watching.

Posted on: Sep 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Senator Sherrod Brown's race has become emblematic of post-Citizens United politics.

Posted on: Sep 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Posted on: Sep 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Many pundits describe the vice-presidential nominee as an intellectual heavyweight. He's not -- but you wouldn't know it from the mainstream media reports.

Posted on: Aug 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

A special Labor Day interview with domestic workers organizer Ai-Jen Poo, one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2012.

Posted on: Aug 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rockers scold Ryan for misunderstanding their music, while the world fawns over Russian self-styled punks Pussy Riot. Who says political music is dead?

Posted on: Aug 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Fifteen Occupy Homes Minnesota organizers face up to two years in jail for peacefully linking arms outside a house when the police came to enforce a foreclosure.

Posted on: Aug 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Posted on: Aug 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Student organizers from around the country (and the world) gathered in Columbus to help build a unified, strong student movement, learn from one another, and take action.

Posted on: Aug 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Economist Richard D. Wolff is known as a critic of capitalism, but lately he's been arguing for an alternative: cooperatives.

Posted on: Aug 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

A new study finds that opinionated reporting might be better at motivating the politically unengaged.

Posted on: Aug 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

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