Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow, co-host (with Michelle Chen) of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, and a columnist at The Progressive. She was formerly a staff writer at In These Times and the labor editor at AlterNet. Her previous books are Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, which Robin D.G. Kelley called “The most compelling social and political portrait of our age.” You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia and a bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola University New Orleans. Sarah was born and raised in Massachusetts and has also lived in South Carolina, Louisiana, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, and currently calls New York home.
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The Hard Head and Wild Heart of Barbara Ehrenreich
Revisiting Nickel and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, and many more of the late author's groundbreaking books.
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This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Look to Marxists to Reimagine Love, Romance and Sex
It's not you, it's capitalism.
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Against Loving Your Job
"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will."
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Will Dems Fight the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? Organizers Are Pushing Chuck Schumer To Act.
A conversation with an organizer from Indivisible.
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What the Supreme Court’s Week of Hell Means for People of Color
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An Immigration Lawyer Explains What’s Really Happening with Family Separation
A conversation with Eve Stotland, director of legal services for The Door.
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Why These Immigrants Are Shutting Their City Down This May Day
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Arizona Teachers Are Prepared to Strike to Fix the Education Crisis Themselves
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Jane McAlevey: We Can Beat Trump, But We Need More Than Big Marches
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Keith Ellison: The Time Has Come for Medicare-for-All and a Maximum Wage
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Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee
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Women Across the Globe Are Planning to Strike on March 8. Here’s Why.
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How Organizers in Rural North Carolina Plan To Build Working-Class Power in 2018
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“We Will Be Out in the Streets”: What’s Next in the Fight Against the GOP Tax Bill
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Grad Students Take Tax Bill Fight to Paul Ryan’s Office
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These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote
A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People's Alliance.
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The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”
A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.
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How Democratic Socialists Took On Centrists and the Right Wing at the Ballot Box
David Duhalde, deputy director of the Democratic Socialists of America, discusses the group's recent electoral success—and what they have planned for 2018.
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Here’s Why Chicago Activists Are Against Rahm Emanuel’s $95 Million Cop Academy
A conversation with Monica Trinidad, a Chicago-based artist and organizer.
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What the South Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Resisting the Right
A conversation with organizers of the Southern Movement Assembly, a convergence of bottom-up organizations rooted in Black struggle.
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If Berniecrats Were British: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum Won the Soul of the Labour Party
Momentum continues to play a central role in organizing the Left in the U.K.’s Labour party.
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From “Me Too” to “All of Us”: Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without Prisons
To transform the conditions of sexual violence, we must not rely on violent systems of incarceration.
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After Maria, Vulture Firms Are Trying to Bleed Puerto Rico Dry. They Must Be Stopped.
Jonathan Westin of New York Communities for Change discusses why Puerto Rico's debt needs to be canceled.
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The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico
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Socialism and Faygo: Why the DSA Is Down for the Struggalo
A conversation with Allison Hrabar of Metro D.C. DSA.
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After Member Is Deported, New York Teamsters Declare Themselves Sanctuary Union
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The Left’s Long History of Militant Resistance to Fascism
A conversation with historian Mark Bray about the origins of modern anti-fascist movements.
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The Attack on DACA Is About Racism. Period.
A conversation with the young people on the front lines of Trump's crackdown.
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In Hurricane-Ravaged Texas, Immigrant Justice Fight Offers Glimmer of Hope
A conversation with Austin city councilman Greg Casar.
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The Movement That Ousted Arpaio Is Setting Its Sights State-Wide
A conversation with Alejandra Gomez, the co-director of Living United for Change in Arizona.
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Toward a Real Racial Justice Platform for the Political Revolution
A conversation with Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution.
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If You Support the Durham Freedom Fighters, Now Is the Time to Have Their Backs
Organizer Angaza Laughinghouse on the wave of retaliation following the toppling of a Confederate monument.
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The Big Banks and Corporations Financing Trump’s Deportation Machine
Activists are taking aim at corporations like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo for their complicity in the administration’s mass deportation agenda.
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An Inside Account of How Direct Action Helped Kill the GOP Healthcare Bill
Mari Cordes is a nurse, organizer and House candidate who was arrested multiple times in Washington, D.C. protesting the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill.
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John McCain’s Constituents Are Revolting Against His Attempt to Take Away Their Healthcare
Meet Lauren Klinkhammer, a Tucson resident who was politicized by the federal assault on healthcare rights.
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To Resist the GOP’s Attack on Healthcare, We Must Transform Our Political System
The Moral Movement is connecting the dots between racist voter suppression, poverty and lethal federal policies.
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‘Police Chose the Klan Over Our People’: On Resisting Racism in Charlottesville
When the KKK came to this city, communities mobilized for collective self-defense. Police were not on their side.
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Why Disabled People Are Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Protest Healthcare Cuts
A conversation with Bruce Darling, an organizer with disability justice group ADAPT.
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Can Indiana Be the Stronghold of the Resistance? This Organizer Thinks So.
Jesse Myerson is one of many trying to build a new progressive base in the country's heartland.
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Meet the Activists Still Fighting the Anti-Woman Legacy of Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform
Why welfare activists are throwing their weight behind the RISE Out of Poverty Act.
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Meet the Rough-and-Tumble Ironworker Ready to Unseat Paul Ryan
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Defeating the Senate’s Trumpcare Bill Is a Life-or-Death Fight
An organizer for Nevada’s Working Families Party discusses the efforts in her state to block the Senate healthcare bill and push for single-payer.
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How Black Communities Across the Country Are Retaking Land and Demanding Reparations
A conversation with Chinyere Tutashinda of the BlackOUT Collective.
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Indivisible’s Angel Padilla: Time Is Running Out To Stop the GOP’s Healthcare Bill
The policy director at Indivisible talks tactics for the coming weeks.
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Naomi Klein: Why the Revolution Must Be Led By Ordinary People, Not Celebrities
When they go low, we rise up.
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Interviews for Resistance: A Sanders Campaign Vet on How to Connect with Disaffected Voters
Becky Bond talks about the importance of knocking on doors to bridge the gap between voters and campaigns.
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Interviews for Resistance: Disrupting the System by Demanding Healthcare as a Human Right
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Interviews for Resistance: New Progressive Coalition Calls for “Millions of Jobs”