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Hadas Thier is an author and journalist, an activist, and a die-hard New Yorker. She writes about economics and US politics, and makes complicated things accessible to everyone.

She is the author of A People’s Guide to Capitalism, and writes for the Nation, Jacobin, Teen Vogue, In These Times, Dollars & Sense, and more. Her forthcoming book, Crypto-Capitalism: The New Financial Dystopia, is under way. Sign up below to find out when it hits the presses!

Featured Articles

  • Tent at Gaza Solidarity Encampment

    The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is.

    The Nation | May 3, 2024

    The narrative of protesters endangering Jewish students has been used to justify police repression. But at the Columbia encampment, I saw a commitment to confronting antisemitism.

  • Protestors at Bryant Park

    The New Movement for Palestine

    Hammer & Hope | March 19, 2024

    Global outrage over Israel’s attacks on Gaza has produced a broad-based mass movement never before witnessed on the question of Palestine.

  • University presidents testify at congressional hearings on antisemitism

    Do American Colleges Have an Antisemitism Problem?

    Teen Vogue | December 22, 2023

    Instances of antisemitism are rising on campuses, but the medicine on offer may be feeding the disease.

  • Welcome to Jackson

    Jackson’s Water System Is Broken by Design

    The Nation | February 22, 2023

    Declining federal funding has left the water infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital at the mercy of conservative state politicians.

  • 1930s billboard: There's no way like the American way

    A Left Answer to Inflation

    In These Times | September/October, 2022

    It is time to forsake the Chicago school of economics.

  • When Socialists Govern

    The Nation | February 22, 2022

    New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is building power in Queens.