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1 month ago | 
thenation.com | D.D. Guttenplan |Dean Baker |Laura Jedeed |Mohammed R Mhawish
Editorial It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Kaveh Akbar |Laura Jedeed |Sasha Abramsky |Tanvi Misra
Activism / March 28, 2025 What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? Ad Policy
Rumeysa Ozturk being arrested byICE.(CBS News)Tonight I opened Instagram on my iPhone and the very first thing it showed me was a video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, being arrested by ICE.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
rsn.org | Laura Jedeed
he city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and centralize power for the long term. For some, their ambitions don’t stop there. "There’s a hole. Smack in the middle.” Mark Dietrich pointed at a brown garage door across the street. Someone has taken a hand drill to it, just above eye level. “They reach through with a wire or a coat hanger, and then there’s a little red handle.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
newrepublic.com | Laura Jedeed
“There’s a hole. Smack in the middle.” Mark Dietrich pointed at a brown garage door across the street. Someone has taken a hand drill to it, just above eye level. “They reach through with a wire or a coat hanger, and then there’s a little red handle. As soon you pull that red handle, the garage [door] goes right up.”Dietrich is an analytics executive and San Francisco anti-crime activist, with a bike rider’s build and a close-cropped business haircut.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Laura Jedeed
The monied interests pouring unprecedentedamounts of cash into San Francisco’s local elections would like you to knowthey are not conservative. Call them “moderate” instead, or perhaps“common-sense.” “Progressives have tried their approach to governing the cityand failed. Moderates are working to put it back together,” wrote Todd David,political director of the advocacy organization Abundance Network, in a letterto the editor of the SanFrancisco Chronicle.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
newlinesmag.com | Laura Jedeed
Moving left on economic issues may be the key to winning over blue-collar voters of all races Fred Hampton, chair of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter, did not know he was about to die but he knew things were getting dangerous.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lux-magazine.com | Laura Jedeed
This story is co-published with Teen Vogue and supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a religious charity in her hometown of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that helps unhoused people get back on their feet. She began to plan a better life for herself and her two daughters. “I knew I wanted to get my GED,” she told me.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
economichardship.org | Laura Jedeed
North Idaho College Was Taken Over By the Far-Right — It’s a Warning for the Future of Higher Ed Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a religious charity in her hometown of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that helps unhoused people get back on their feet. She began to plan a better life for herself and her two daughters.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
teenvogue.com | Laura Jedeed
A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a religious charity in her hometown of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that helps unhoused people get back on their feet. She began to plan a better life for herself and her two daughters. “I knew I wanted to get my GED,” she told me. She also knew that the Adult Education Center at North Idaho College (NIC) offered a free GED program. It seemed like a good place to start.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Laura Jedeed
Disability Community1 hour agoTeachers Are Revealing When They Finally Met A Student's Parent And Thought, "Oh, So THAT'S Why They're Like That"BuzzFeed - Raven Ishak • 1h"At some point, the mom sees her daughter also on her phone and has the nerve to yell at her daughter to get off her phone. THEN, the mom is back on her phone." Since teachers have to work closely with students, they often have to meet with their parents for a variety of reasons. So when Reddit user …
