Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is a staff writer at In These Times and the co-host of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast. Her writings on labor, social movements, gender, media, and student debt have been published in The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, AlterNet, and many other publications, and she is a regular commentator for radio and television. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.
Jaffe was a contributing editor on The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement is Changing America, from AlterNet Books, as well as a contributor to the anthologies At The Tea Party and Beautiful Trouble, both from OR Books. Sarah is working on a book on populist social movements in the United States.
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To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
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Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”