Paige Oamek - In These Times

Paige Oamek is a writer and fact-checker based in New York. Their writing appears in The Nation, The American Prospect and elsewhere.

Full Spectrum Overdose Prevention

A game-changing program to mitigate the fentanyl crisis.

Workers Organize for Better Conditions After Air Quality Plummets

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed much of the East Coast last week and air quality worsened, some workers organized to try and stay safe.

Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery

Winning Is Only the Start: Jane McAlevey on Building Worker Power

Veteran organizer Jane McAlevey on the long-game of building union power through contract negotiations.

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Will Lithium Mining Turn California's Salton Sea into a Green Energy Sacrifice Zone?

Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms—and maybe a lithium boom.

A Former Sundown Town Passed Reparations and Rent Control. Now It's Fighting to Keep Them.

Culver City’s first Black Mayor, Daniel Lee, wants to make California the bastion of progressive politics some imagine it to be.

Student Loans are a Burden for Black Educators. Cancel Them.

A conversation with Stacy Davis Gates, the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, about why canceling student debt is a labor issue.

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How To Build Fierce and Worker-Centered Unions

A Q&A with an organizer about her new book and on building worker power through resilience.

Youth to Biden: Drop Debt

Democrats may be doomed in the midterms without student debt cancellation.

Meet the High School Students Who Organized Thousands to Walk Out for Amir Locke

Twin Cities teens demand a true ban on deadly "no-knock" warrants, a broken promise from Mayor Frey.

Paige Oamek and Maggie Duffy

Big Pharma’s Big Lie About Vaccine Patents

Companies say that sharing vaccine recipes wouldn't boost manufacturing soon enough, but now we know that's not true.

Sarah Lazare and Paige Oamek