Joe Lawson

Joe Lawson is a science reporter who studied journalism at the University of Southern California with five years of experience in the news. He contributes to Fortune, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. Lawson has written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, Popular Science, and Wired.

The Middle Class Is Dead

Maybe there was, long ago—in a time before the sort of person who gets their news online was born. But those days are over and with them, the concept of financial security driven by the simple, honest ethic of American work.  Few people can agree on what the “middle class” even is—CNBC estimates that 70%