Esther Wang

@estherxlwang

As pandemic-era tenant protections end, cities are reconsidering rent control as a means to keeping people in their homes. St. Paul offers an example.

Let’s not be deluded into thinking these abortion foes are allies. Everyone deserves robust support so they can choose if they want to parent at all.

Around the country, conservative parents are merging moral panics about critical race theory and queerness into one noxious package.

As the Supreme Court considers Texas’s extreme abortion ban, commentators would have you believe Mississippi’s is comparatively reasonable.

How do you use police to address sexual violence when they themselves are part of the problem?

With a bill banning trans student athletes, Republicans are claiming to protect children in order to consolidate power. Where have we seen this before?

We’ve heard this story before, when police said criminal justice reform would lead to mass resignations.

The administration continues to use the pandemic as a pretext for deportations, including those of thousands of Haitian asylum-seekers.

Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

An abortion provider and a hotline operator warn that S.B. 8 is a proving ground for abortion restrictions around the country.

Clinics across Texas are preparing to get sued and to have to send patients out of state.

Stopping Covid-19 aid programs early ignores what has worked to keep people safe, housed, and freed from debt as a global health crisis rages on.

The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.

In 2017, would-be Cassandras warned about witch hunts and ruined careers. In 168 pages, New York Attorney General Letitia James captured a sexist American work culture that is as poisonous as ever.

As Covid relief programs are set to expire this fall, millions of people are newly facing eviction and mounting debts. Why pretend the pandemic is over?

The chaos unfolding outside of a Los Angeles spa is a case study in how the right’s media and political ecosystems feed each other, often resulting in very real violence.

Classes are being canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos are only part of the story.