SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
How Jane McAlevey Transformed the Labor Movement, The New Yorker, October 17, 2023
The Case Against Student Debt Relief Barely Even Pretends to Make Sense w Louise Seamster, The New York Times, May 28, 2023
How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann’s Debts, The New Yorker, February 23, 2023
Life or Debt, Lux, Winter 2022
A Speculative Endeavor, Lapham’s Quarterly, Fall 2022
The Aging Student Debtors of America, The New Yorker, July 27, 2022
We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not The Way You Think), The New York Times, August 27, 2021
The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald’s, The New Yorker, February 15, 2021
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too! The Nation, November 2020
Jane McAlevey’s Vision for the Future of American Labor, The New Yorker, June 10, 2020
“Hello, We Are from Wisconsin, and We Are Your Future” Boston Review, April 7, 2020
After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back, Dissent, Spring 2019
More Writing
Debt
Chicago Teachers to the Mayor: Put Human Needs Ahead of Bank (The Nation, August 20, 2021)
American Universities Are Buried Under a Mountain of Debt. (The Nation, April 15, 2021)
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too! (The Nation, November 2020)
We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think) (The New York Times, August 27, 2021)
Labor and Education
For Higher Education, a Return to Normal Isn’t Good Enough. (Jacobin, April 7, 2020)
What’s Next After ‘Right to Work?’ (Jacobin, March 5, 2015)
The High Price of the Public Authority (Remaking The University, February 25, 2015)
Walker’s Budget Would Hit Graduate Students Especially Hard (The Badger Herald, March 5, 2015)
Unions Still Matter in a Struggle For a Fairer World (The Cap Times, October 27, 2015)
The General Electric University: Not Wisconsin’s Brightest Idea (Labor Notes, August 14, 2013)
An FAQ on Corporate Education Reform.” Public School Shakedown (The Progressive Magazine, January 2014)
Wisconsin’s New Bad Idea (Labor Notes, May 21, 2012)
Jane McAlevey’s Vision for the Future of American Labor, (The New Yorker, June 10, 2020)
After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back, (Dissent, Spring 2019)
“Hello, We Are from Wisconsin, and We Are Your Future” (Boston Review, April 7, 2020)
What Wisconsin Will Recall (Labor Notes, March 2012).
Essays: Life in a body
Venus Williams has the instinct to persevere (ESPNw, July 14, 2017)
Fighting for the lights: Claressa Shields' big night for women fighters
Abbey D'Agostino and Nikki Hamblin: Falling as runners but rising as heroes
An open letter to South African runner Caster Semenya
Poetry is not a luxury, not even for Serena Williams
Five times women marched in protest
Boston Marathon: What we're running for
The Mighty Pens of Women's Tennis: The Letter Legacy of Alice Marble and Venus Williams