Ezra Marcus

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Ezra Marcus is a staff writer at Mic.

New Mexico's bold plan for free college tuition is a blueprint for the future

If you’re a New Mexico high school student with college ambitions, your future may have just gotten a lot less expensive. On Wednesday, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced a plan to eliminate tuition at all of the state’s…

Taylor Swift wants you to know that the Kanye fight messed with her head — and her politics

For years, Taylor Swift famously avoided any discussion of politics, maintaining a silence so total that it was eventually co-opted by white supremacists. But in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Swift built on her previous tentative steps toward…

Israel's election is a referendum on human rights

On Tuesday, Israelis went to the polls for the second time in less than six months. They have their embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thank for the repeated opportunities to exercise their franchise. Exit polls in the Israeli election…

The GM strike is proof that unions are still a powerful force for change

If America’s labor unions are supposed to be dying, United Auto Workers didn’t get the memo. At 12:01 a.m. Monday, 49,000 UAW members walked off their jobs at General Motors after talks broke down between union representatives and management. The GM…

Could Brett Kavanaugh really be impeached?

In the early days of the United States, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. A staunch supporter of the Federalist Party, Chase aggravated President Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Republicans with his…