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In this third week after the disaster, we grimly cast our votes in the party primaries for a new mayor. Such acts of citizenship are at once profound and merely gestural. It seems right that I wake up...

For "Nickled and Dimed," author Barbara Ehrenreich

Housing costs too much. Healthcare costs too much. Childcare costs too much. But for most workers, the most immediate problem is simpler: their paychecks are too low.

The wave of booing aimed at AI-pilled commencement speakers signals a sea change in public opinion.

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out

From ICE to Kalshi, our fear and uncertainty are increasingly monetized, weaponized, and turned against us.

We CAN have nice things - if we want them

Just a few months ago, AI was an interesting tool for knowledge workers. Now, for many, it’s utterly terrifying.

The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they're suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.

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Alissa Quart's mom was sick and her job kept her tethered to a nonstop news cycle. "The pain and desperation I felt when I asked for a reading is part of why I think Tarot cards, spells, energy work a...

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. I experienced this first-hand

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.

Remembrances, appreciations, and remarks.

Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.