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Liz Theoharis

Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, she is the author of Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor and We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign. Follow her on Twitter at @liztheo.

Everybody In, Nobody Out

Dreams of Democracy This Christmas

By Liz Theoharis On December 20, 2022On December 21, 2022

The Quality (or Inequality) of Life

Assessing the True Extent of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth

By Liz Theoharis On October 27, 2022On October 27, 2022

No More Sacrifices

Mercy Makes Good Policy

By Liz Theoharis On September 15, 2022On September 16, 2022

Controlling Bodies and Subverting Democracy

How Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All

By Liz Theoharis On July 19, 2022On July 19, 2022

The Poor at the Crossroads

The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort

By Liz Theoharis On April 21, 2022On April 21, 2022

Joe Manchin’s America

The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

By Liz Theoharis On February 27, 2022On March 2, 2022

Which Way America?

Confronting Christian Nationalism in the Spirit of Desmond Tutu

By Liz Theoharis On January 11, 2022On January 11, 2022

A Project for Survival in These United States

Lifting from the Bottom So Everyone Can Rise

By Liz Theoharis On November 7, 2021On November 10, 2021

The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless

Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic

By Liz Theoharis On September 16, 2021On September 16, 2021

Generations of Struggle

Lessons on Defending Democracy

By Liz Theoharis On August 10, 2021On August 10, 2021

When You Lift from the Bottom, Everyone Rises

Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

By Liz Theoharis On June 22, 2021On June 22, 2021

Mother’s Day Tears

The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

By Liz Theoharis On May 13, 2021On May 14, 2021

“The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”

Living in a Country Haunted by Death

By Liz Theoharis On April 4, 2021On April 5, 2021

Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?

Not Those of Poor Americans, That’s For Sure

By Liz Theoharis On February 16, 2021On February 16, 2021

The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s True Legacy

By Liz Theoharis On January 17, 2021On May 15, 2021

Pandemic Lessons for the Rest of Us

Or Vaccine Thinking Applied to All of American Life

By Liz Theoharis On December 13, 2020On May 15, 2021

The Other America

The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA

By Liz Theoharis On November 17, 2020On May 15, 2021

The Rise of Christian Nationalism in America

Or How to Legislate Evil and Punish the Poor

By Liz Theoharis On September 27, 2020On May 15, 2021

A Jubilee Moment in Pandemic America?

The Poetry of a Movement to Change This Country

By Liz Theoharis On July 21, 2020On May 15, 2021

Organizing the Rich or the Poor?

Which America Will Be Ours After the Pandemic?

By Liz Theoharis On June 4, 2020On May 15, 2021

Inequality and the Coronavirus

Or How to Destroy American Society From the Top Down

By Liz Theoharis On April 21, 2020On May 15, 2021

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