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Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center, the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and the forthcoming Work Won’t Love You Back—both from Bold Type Books.

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September 23, 2022
Sarah Jaffe
The Country That Could Not Mourn
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.
May 1, 2020
Sarah Jaffe
The Post-Pandemic Future of Work
The current crisis is forcing us to reconsider what it means to have to work to live. It's long overdue.
October 23, 2019
Sarah Jaffe
The Last Stand in Lordstown
With General Motors workers on strike since mid-September, a labor union in Ohio votes on a controversial contract.
June 24, 2019
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The Road Not Taken
The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
May 6, 2019
Sarah Jaffe
Power Plays in the Anti-Semitic Blame Game
As capitalism starts to crumble, hate finds a familiar foothold.
May 30, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
Family Values
What Ireland’s abortion fight and the Trump administration’s war on immigrants say about the role of families in conservative politics
April 26, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
The Struggle to Stay Middle Class
How a years-long assault against public workers has created a new solidarity
April 18, 2018
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A True Labor of Love
Why teachers are adopting a more militant politics
March 26, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
March For Our Lives Was About More Than Gun Control
Young activists took aim not just at firearms, but also at a system incapable of responding to demands for change.
March 14, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
A Party Within the Democratic Party
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is mapping out not only its principles, but also a strategy for taking power.
March 2, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
The Gun Control Fight Is a Fight For Equality
The Parkland shooting has sparked another debate about guns—a debate mistakenly siloed from other issues that contribute to deadly violence.
February 22, 2018
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The New Working Class
It’s not just men working factory jobs in the Rust Belt—and it never really was.
February 16, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
How to Halt Labor’s Slow Death
The success of a Minnesota teachers' union shows the way forward for a beleaguered movement.
January 31, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
How the Media Is Abetting the GOP’s War on “Welfare”
Bill Clinton already ended welfare as we knew it. So what, exactly, are Republicans after now?
January 9, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
Ending Harassment Won’t End Romance
The backlash to the #MeToo movement says requiring consent will dampen the erotic spark. But it can actually help us understand each other better.
December 21, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Consider the Flight Attendant
Why the JetBlue rank-and-file are pushing to unionize
December 5, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Trump’s Sham Populism
One year ago, he was celebrating saving more than 1,000 Carrier plant jobs. How quickly things change.
November 24, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
There Are No Safe Spaces
A series of sexual harassment allegations has vindicated the demands of student activists.
October 13, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Local Elections for the Left
As social democrats break through in "red" places like Birmingham, the national media is getting the story all wrong.
September 29, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Socialized Medicine Has Won the Health Care Debate
Lindsey Graham and the Republicans tried to use the "S-word" to scare Americans about health care. It doesn't work anymore.

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