Author Profile
Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a former staff writer at In These Times and author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt , which Robin D.G. Kelley called “The most compelling social and political portrait of our age.” You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The New Republic and New Labor Forum.
She has a master’s degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia and a bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola University New Orleans. Sarah was born and raised in Massachusetts and has also lived in South Carolina, Louisiana, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, and currently calls New York home.
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Jane McAlevey: We Can Beat Trump, But We Need More Than Big Marches
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns,... MORE
Working · March 28, 2018
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Keith Ellison: The Time Has Come for Medicare-for-All and a Maximum Wage
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns,... MORE
Working · March 22, 2018
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Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns,... MORE
Working · March 16, 2018
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Women Across the Globe Are Planning to Strike on March 8. Here’s Why.
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns,... MORE
Working · February 9, 2018
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How Organizers in Rural North Carolina Plan To Build Working-Class Power in 2018
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now nearly one year into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories. Yet there is always more to be done, and for... MORE
Working · January 3, 2018
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“We Will Be Out in the Streets”: What’s Next in the Fight Against the GOP Tax Bill
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done,... MORE
Working · December 19, 2017
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Grad Students Take Tax Bill Fight to Paul Ryan’s Office
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done,... MORE
Working · December 8, 2017
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These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote
A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People's Alliance. MORE
Features · December 7, 2017
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The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”
A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition. MORE
Features · November 28, 2017
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How Democratic Socialists Took On Centrists and the Right Wing at the Ballot Box
David Duhalde, deputy director of the Democratic Socialists of America, discusses the group's recent electoral success—and what they have planned for 2018. MORE
Features · November 25, 2017