Isolation, Death, and Grief at a New York Women’s Prison
Coronavirus infections climb at the state’s only maximum-security facility for women, and those held there fear for their safety.
Spring 2025
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Crying Before Work, but Still Showing Up
A home care attendant is determined to keep helping her vulnerable clients. “I’ve been in this field eighteen years,” she said. “So why would I turn my back now, when I know they need me to feed them?”
Sephora Makes Plans to Reopen
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
Belabored Stories: NYU Teaching Assistants Are on a Sick-Out
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
Belabored Stories: The Buses Are Busy in the South Bronx
Wayne Lizardi’s route is operating on a reduced schedule, but his bus is still crowded with passengers traveling to work.
The Catastrophe in New York City Jails
The survival of incarcerated people is dependent on slow-moving bureaucrats and the politically calculating whims of sadistic politicians.
Belabored Stories: Cramped at the Call Center
At a company that provides services to public health agencies tracking the coronavirus, workers sit in cubicles “like sardine cans.”
The Pandemic Inside the Only Women’s Maximum-Security Prison in New York
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.
Belabored Stories: Union Busting in a Disaster
Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.
Belabored Stories: Education at a Distance
If anything good can come of this massive experiment in remote teaching, a New York City teacher says, it should be “an end to the Silicon Valley fantasy that this is what school can be in the future.”
In Uno, Plures: How New Yorkers Fought Fascism in the 1930s
While nativists used economic depression and global conflict to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment, a movement emerged in New York City’s liberal and left-wing circles to combat racism and forge connections between ethnic groups.
Could Tiffany Cabán Transform the Queens Criminal Justice System?
The career public defender hopes to join a wave of progressive district attorneys pushing a bold agenda of criminal-legal reform.
New York Isn’t Ready for a Constitutional Convention
Without a much larger movement to overcome New York’s political machine, a constitutional convention risks rolling back progressive victories—not adding to them.
Single-Payer from the Bottom Up
What Medicare for All advocates can learn from the fight for single-payer in New York.
Dirty Laundry: An Investigation
Hidden from the public and overlooked by regulators, immigrant workers in the laundry industry face a litany of hazards and abuse. Our six-month investigation reveals the extent of their exploitation.
