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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
2 hours agoIn his speech to Congress, Trump played up unproven claims of malfeasance in green-energy funding. “$1.9 billion to recently-created decarbonization of homes committee, headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment the money was passed over, by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you …
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1 month ago | 
washingtonmonthly.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
Watching Elon Musk take over large parts of government triggered a shock of recognition among those of us who study big business: the tactics he is applying to the executive branch are the same as those that have transformed corporate America.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit
Much ink has been spilled about what Donald Trump is: A fascist? A puppet? A narcissist? An opportunist? Is he a hardline ideologue or a meandering megalomaniac? One of the reasons it’s so hard to pin Trump down is because he says what he thinks out loud—and what he thinks is often fleeting, and self-contradictory.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Ruchi Kumar
Persisting Through Politics — 7 min read The night she learned the U.S. Supreme Court was planning to bring down Roe v. Wade, the journalist and author Jessica Valenti went to bed and wept. “I kept saying, ‘My daughter, my daughter,” she writes. “A mother’s job is to protect her children. How could I possibly do that now?”Valenti’s grief quickly metastasized into anger. That anger materialized as a newsletter. Abortion, Every Day.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Ruchi Kumar
Essays — 6 min read In March 2014, I completed my first marathon in four hours and 58 minutes. It was a blustery day, but the British drizzle had no chance of dampening my mood as I crossed the finish line, because my body had done far more than conquer 26 miles. Eight years earlier—in 2006—just as I was about to graduate from high school, I had developed a severe eating disorder. I’ve never been able to pinpoint exactly what caused it.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thehill.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
In the upcoming election, the future of the Supreme Court is at stake: The next president is likely to have the opportunity to appoint several new justices. The Supreme Court’s most recent decisions are part of a decades-long pattern of rulings that bolster what we have called the “winner-take-all economy” — that is, a system that allocates a disproportionate share of society’s resources to those already at the top.
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May 23, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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May 23, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit
In many ways, Betty Dukes was the kind of worker Walmart—the world’s largest private employer—had always sought to attract: someone looking for an entry-level job and willing to work hard for low pay. She was 44 years old with twenty years of experience in retail, but she had had a difficult life, and she came to Walmart because it was one of the few jobs open to her. She was born in Tallulah, Louisiana, in 1950, one of twelve children.
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May 7, 2024 | 
simonandschuster.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Janina Edwards |Nancy Levit
Fair Shake By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit Read by Janina Edwards Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit Hardcover LIST PRICE $29.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Buy from Other Retailers Table of Contents About The Book A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era...
