Zoë Carpenter
Zoë Carpenter is The Nation's associate Washington editor. She has written for Rolling Stone, Guernica and the Poughkeepsie Journal. An Oregon native, Zoë studied writing and environmental politics at Vassar College. Follow her on Twitter: @ZoeSCarpenter.
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June 12, 2017With GOP “moderates” caving on Medicaid cuts, the skids are greased.
March 30, 2017The president rolled back two directives meant to protect communities from the effects of climate change.
October 12, 2016Unless we stop developing new fossil-fuel reserves, the Paris agreement is a joke.
March 2, 2016Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the first significant test of abortion rights in a decade.
February 19, 2016 A study finds widening gaps in longevity between people at the far ends of the economic ladder. That means high earners are reaping more and more of the benefits of Social Security.
October 21, 2015The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care.
June 12, 2015What began as isolated ideological attacks is looking more and more like a wholesale gutting of the state’s public colleges.
March 5, 2015The DoJ's new report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness.
November 3, 2014This is the year of the mega-donor: Just 42 people are responsible for nearly a third of super PAC spending in the 2014 election cycle.
August 7, 2014The release of a long-delayed investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods was held up yet again on Tuesday after the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee objected to the amount of information that had been censored by the Obama administration.
