Work Life Doesn’t Have To Be Like This
Before the shutdown, our jobs consumed us without giving much back. The pandemic allowed many of us to reassess our relationship to work—but can we actually afford to make the necessary changes?
Kaitlin Byrd
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Kaitlin Byrd is a writer, researcher, and proud Prep for Prep alum, working in her hometown of Brooklyn. She writes and curses about politics on Twitter.
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Democrats Have to Break the GOP to Win
Republicans, who are on the losing side of nearly every political equation, would be completely disempowered if Democrats decided they didn't matter.
The Actual Heirs to American Independence
While it may feel like democracy itself is dissolving beneath us, the resurrection of this country won’t come from the Supreme Court or Congress. That power belongs to us.
When White Men Set Standards of “Normalcy”
White cisgender heterosexual men have assumed the power to define the terms for how to be—and not to be—in the world, rendering the rest of us aberrations. And that should terrify all of us.
The Left Needs Its Own Megaphone
FOX News galvanizes their brainwashed viewership to act on right-wing extremist, murderous ideologies. It's time Democrats launch their own network to counter the toxic noise and mobilize the base.
The Present Is Our History Now
Many of us screamed into the wind about the importance of voting, the cold danger of apathy, the sheer cruelty that would be unleashed, the searing reality that too late is too soon. But we can still reassemble our past and break our present—we have to.
There Is No Post-Covid
With few healthcare lessons learned, pandemic mandates are being lifted, and we're becoming increasingly resigned to live with the risk.
Why Do We Make Politics So Complicated?
Americans are up to their necks in urgent crises, from an ever-evolving pandemic to climate disaster to supremacist autocracy, and can't bring themselves to tackle, let alone acknowledge any of them.
White People Know What Race Is
Black children grow up knowing the complex history of their people in this country. Why are white people refusing to acknowledge theirs?
Who Remembers the Real Martin Luther King Jr.?
The civil rights leader has become an American paragon, his words and image coopted and distorted by the very people who sought to destroy him. Let’s remember the man and what he actually stood for.