Astra Taylor

@astradisastra

We won’t be talking student loan relief once Trump takes office. We’ll be talking about the abolition of the Department of Education.

Responsive organizing is essential to achieving policy reform.

The suits brought by the Cato Institute and other more mysterious plaintiffs are totally meritless. The president has the power to make them null and void—if he’ll use it.

Though not nearly enough, the president’s move is a good one—and is the result of a decade-plus of activism by thousands of brave Americans.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

To avert global catastrophe, we urgently need to resurrect the ancient ideal of solidarity.

On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality

With populism on the rise in both parties, it has become fashionable for elites to bash the masses. But we need more democracy, not less.