Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Sarah Jaffe

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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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