Cole Stangler is a freelance journalist writing about labor and politics. A former staff writer at International Business Times and In These Times, Cole has also published work in VICE, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Prospect and The Village Voice and been cited in The New York Times. At Georgetown University, Cole wrote an undergraduate history thesis, “From Revolution to Rights,” tracing the evolution of the post-1968 wave of immigrant political activism in France. He is currently a pursuing a masters’ degree in history at the University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne.