From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., workers are finding new approaches to bargaining for a greater good, aligning their demands with those of their community allies. Joseph A.

Homework and piece pay in the garment industry were largely abolished by the global labor struggles that preceded the New Deal. Silicon Valley capitalists have brought the model back. Veena Dubal ...

Significant change to our political economy will require significant change to our structure of government. It is hard to see how to get there without some kind of “populist” moment, fraught with ...

University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp. In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white people would no longer ...

From the 1920s to today, American tax policy has evolved to reflect one principle—the investor comes first—with disastrous implications for the rest of us. Julia Ott ▪ April 18, 2017 As chair ...

In Reckoning, Deva Woodly makes a case for radical Black feminist pragmatism, a philosophy “that takes lessons from many twentieth-century ideologies and forges them into a political ethic for our ...

Slouching Towards Utopia is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall. Basic Books, 2022, 624 pp. There is a masterpiece in J. Bradford DeLong’s Slouching ...

Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.

A happily lapsed academic, I try to avoid any content that might bring back memories. This instinct for self-preservation has generally served me and my inbox well; recently, I finally unsubscribed ...

When a young Chuck Schumer arrived at Harvard in 1967 as a freshman, he joined the great political stirring of those years—who could resist it? But Abbie Hoffman he was not. “I was faced with what ...

Budraitskis suggests that there is a fundamental paradox of Russian politics under Putin: the desire to be both inside and outside of the Western geopolitical order. This paradox was not obvious at ...

In 2018, tech writer Douglas Rushkoff met with a handful of hedge fund billionaires to talk about the future of technology. But they were actually most interested in enlisting his help in filling in ...