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Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart is the Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is the author of four nonfiction books, including Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America (2018), as well as two books of poetry. Her latest project is the podcast series Going for Broke with Ray Suarez. Her next book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, is forthcoming in 2022.

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Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now

Amid the 1840s economic crisis, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The remarkable movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

October 25, 2021

David Berman of Silver Jews Remembered

The lead singer of the indie rock band Silver Jews, David Berman, died last month. While he might at first glance appear just another icon of Gen X, Berman reflected that generation’s ironic, dark hunches about existence.

September 12, 2019

Sisters in Arms

Is the #MeToo “moment” the beginning of a new feminism?

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

by Bernice Yeung

July 19, 2018 issue

Greenfield’s Gilt Edge

These images are undeniably gross, yet also as seductive as a fashion shoot. The risk of “bling porn” is worth taking to bear witness to our new Gilded Age.

January 2, 2018

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