Issue 243

The Equal Rights Amendment is Back

Eleanor J. Bader

The Constitutional amendment is one state from the ratification threshold. But will it count?

• National

De Blasio Care

Peter Rugh

The mayor is expanding access to medical treatment for NYC’s poor and undocumented. But how he says he’s paying for it may sicken you.

• New York

Is Queens Ready For a People’s DA?

Theodore Hamm

In a wide-open race, a DSA-backed outsider challenges 3 establishment opponents.

• New York
• Notes From the Queens DA Race
• The Queens DA Race

Love In a Time of Conflict Minerals

Reverend Billy Talen

Hi Billy, my girlfriend proposed! But meanwhile life is going extinct. There’s racism and oceans full of plastics and…

• Rev. Billy's Trump Help Hotline

The Vultures Are Circling NYCHA

Rico Cleffi

Decades of disinvestment have devastated NYC’s public housing. And now the private sector is ready to cash in.

• New York

Harvey Milk’s Chutzpah

Jessica Max Stein

Another biography of Harvey Milk?’ I thought with a twinge of annoyance when I saw Lillian Faderman’s latest book,…

• Books
• Culture

‘Tales of America’: J.S. Ondara’s Transplanted Melodies

Brady O’Callahan

The American Dream probably means something different to each person you’d ask. For some, it’s getting married, moving to…

• Culture
• Music

The White Working Class: America’s Prodigal Son

Nicholas Powers

Will the left embrace white blue-collar workers in their hour of need and create an unbeatable progressive coalition?

• National

2 Centuries, 10 Strikes: Erik Loomis Offers an Insightful History of American Labor

Steven Sherman

With public support for unions surging, historian Erik Loomis has produced a timely book called A History of America…

• Books
• Culture