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Senior Writer, Intelligencer

Sarah Jones is a senior writer for Intelligencer who covers politics and has written for New York since 2018. She was previously a staff writer for The New Republic and is the author of Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass, forthcoming from Avid Reader Press.

  1. business
    Convenience Is Destroying UsAmazon hopes it’s fast enough to make us complacent.
  2. politics
    Democratic Firm Is Accused of Firing Workers for Speaking UpCivis Analytics bills itself as progressive, but ex-employees say they were let go for trying to make the company live up to its values.
  3. politics
    What the Christian Right Freakout Over Lil Nas X Is Really AboutBehind the latest satanic panic is a fear of losing the future.
  4. politics
    Republicans in Missouri and Georgia Turn Their Backs on DemocracyWhat moves against Medicaid expansion and voting rights have in common.
  5. politics
    ‘I Will Be 55 Before I Am Fully Free’Five people on the high cost of not forgiving student-loan debt.
  6. disasters
    A Few Thoughts About the Big BoatSometimes we all get stuck.
  7. nomadland
    No Country for the Old: On Nomadland and Some Kind of HeavenTwo films — Nomadland and Some Kind of Heaven — present very different visions of aging in modern-day America.
  8. evangelicals
    Evangelicals Must Confront Their Toxic Sexual PoliticsThe Atlanta spa shooter’s actions should spur an overdue reckoning within American Evangelicalism.
  9. politics
    The Fake Feminists Fighting the Equality ActJosh Hawley says he’s trying to protect women by leaving trans and queer ones vulnerable.
  10. politics
    The Fight Over the Public Option Is Already HereThe largest health-care fight since Obamacare starts with a preemptive strike.
  11. business
    Amazon Worker: ‘It’s Not Fair to Get Fired for Going to the Bathroom’An Amazon worker in Bessemer, Alabama, on the fight for a union.
  12. politics
    The PRO Act Could Do More Than Revive UnionsWhat’s inside the most important legislation to organized labor in decades.
  13. politics
    The American Rescue Plan’s Tacit Admission About AmericaWe don’t have to accept child poverty or a racial wealth gap.
  14. covid-19
    The Year of Lost OpportunitiesA better world is still possible. But we’re letting it slip away.
  15. politics
    The DCCC Blacklist Is No MoreVendors will no longer be penalized for working with progressive primary candidates.
  16. feminism
    For International Women’s Day, Raise the Minimum WageLow wages keep women in poverty and make them vulnerable to sexual abuse.
  17. death penalty
    South Carolina Understands What the Death Penalty Is ForState senators want to execute people by firing squad. That would be as brutal as the death penalty itself.
  18. minimum wage increase
    Democrats Courted Fight for $15. The Movement Wants Them to Deliver.“Stop trying to play nicey-nice in the sandbox.”
  19. politics
    Biden’s Pro-Union Message to Amazon Workers Is a Big DealIn an unprecedented move, the president told workers they have the right to organize.
  20. pandemic
    Unions Aren’t the Obstacle to Reopening SchoolsTeachers can’t wish away the consequences of underfunding public education.
  21. media
    Why Did First Look Let Go of Laura Poitras?A co-founder turns critic.
  22. smitings
    You Know Who Loves to Cancel People? God.A Fox News host worries that the left will come for Bible characters.
  23. scandals
    Ted Cruz Flew to Cancun While His Constituents FrozePhotos show the senator headed to Mexico with his family amid a double crisis in Texas. His lack of empathy shouldn’t come as a shock.
  24. covid-19
    New York Takes On Amazon Over COVID Safety MeasuresIn a lawsuit, State Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the company put workers at risk of infection.
  25. business
    A Major Union Election Will Go Ahead at AmazonWorkers in Alabama will vote on organizing with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union beginning on Monday.
  26. covid-19
    Why Aren’t More Health-Care Workers Getting Vaccinated?The reasons are complex, but the largest health-care workers union may have found a solution to the hesitancy problem.
  27. all work no pay
    ‘They Told Me If I Don’t Come in, They Won’t Pay Me’Domestic workers on scraping by during the pandemic.
  28. all work no pay
    The Breaking PointThirteen women on being driven from the workforce.
  29. wall street
    The Final Boss Is CapitalismWho manipulates the manipulators? Not Reddit.
  30. self defense
    Mo Brooks Is Definitely Not a Criminal, So Stop AskingIn a bizarre statement, Brooks defended himself from “scurrilous, George Orwellian, 1984, Socialist Democrats Politics of Personal Destruction.”
  31. politics
    Harvard Decides That Actions Sometimes Have ConsequencesElise Stefanik repeated the Republican Party’s lies about the election being stolen, now she’s been kicked out of the prestigious Kennedy School.
  32. politics
    The GOP Is Trying to Hold Democracy HostageThey say no to impeachment because it’s divisive. But unity is impossible without accountability.
  33. capitol riot
    A Domestic Terrorism Law Can’t Solve Right-Wing ViolenceThe idea is back after the Capitol riot, but the enemies of democracy could use such a statute as a tool against the left.
  34. capitol riot
    You Do Not Have to Hand It to the GOPPraising Republicans for small gestures at a moment of maximum peril ignores how they brought us here.
  35. president trump
    This Is What Trumpism Without Trump Looks LikeTrump mobilized a white-supremacist tradition that he cannot control.
  36. politics
    Raphael Warnock Wins and So Does the Black ChurchCulture-war politics weren’t enough to secure a Republican victory in Georgia.
  37. coup
    Pennsylvania Republicans Just Refused to Seat a Democratic LawmakerThe GOP’s problem with democracy is intensifying.
  38. that’s rich
    Whole Foods CEO to America: You Don’t Need Health Care, Just Eat BetterThere’s a pandemic, but the wealthy can afford to pretend it isn’t happening.
  39. silicon valley
    Google Workers Are UnionizingThe news follows years of bad press for the tech giant.
  40. covid-19
    In Nursing Homes, Santa Claus Comes Bearing PPEHow workers and residents of long-term-care facilities are enduring a pandemic Christmas.
  41. getting around
    Can a Worker-Owned App Pull Drivers From Uber and Lyft?A cooperative tries to revolutionize ride sharing.
  42. star wars
    Abolish the Space ForceJoe Biden, please, I’m begging you.
  43. covid-19
    Weddings to Die ForWhat a viral story about COVID nuptials tells us about American society.
  44. democratic party
    AOC Is Right About Pelosi and SchumerThe left-wing Democrat and her moderate colleagues find a rare point of agreement: Their leaders have been around too long.
  45. covid-19
    Families of Color Are Now Facing an Economic DisasterThe pandemic is making America’s existing racial inequalities worse.
  46. 1%
    Is Peloton’s CEO a Cat? An Investigation.Don’t get rich. It makes you weird.
  47. politics
    Why Is Mitch McConnell So Obsessed With Liability Shields?It’s one of the main reasons he’s holding up a second stimulus package to fight the pandemic.
  48. that happened
    The Time Donald Trump Got to Play With a Big Truck“Vroom vroom,” said the president.
  49. who’s the boss?
    Biden Repeats One of Trump’s Assaults on Democratic Norms With Pentagon PickCivilians should control the military, yet the president-elect wants a retired general for secretary of Defense. Again.
  50. ghouls
    Trump Is Killing People on His Way Out of the White HouseThe president’s definition of “law and order” is a bloody one.
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