On both the Left and Right, there is a prominent tendency to frame organized labor’s problems as most fundamentally about its perception (or non-perception) in public consciousness. For the new pro-worker right, figures like Sohrab...
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The well-worn claim that immigrants “take American jobs” helped sweep the current administration into office last November. First deployed by the “Know Nothing Party” of the mid-nineteenth-century, this old chestnut has long been a staple...
Joe Biden and the staffers who ran his presidency took a lot of deserved flack for their foreign policy decisions from the Left, the antiestablishment right, and even the Washington establishment — for disregarding diplomacy,...
These are confusing political times. For decades, “alter-globalists” resisted dictates from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. Under these institutions of US-led global capitalism, states had to lift tariffs...
In France, a new social movement born in mid-summer threatened to “block everything” starting this Wednesday, September 10, in protest of government-imposed austerity measures. To everyone’s surprise, Prime Minister François Bayrou then called for a...
Review of Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy by Pelle Dragsted (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025) Pelle Dragsted’s Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy is a book about radical possibilities. Written by...
On June 17, 2025, New York City comptroller Brad Lander, at that time a mayoral candidate, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Lander was engaged in the process of immigrant accompaniment, which is...
A few days ago, CNN news anchor Abby Phillip interviewed the Democratic candidate in the New York City mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani. He did what he always does, staying focused on his core message of...
Review of José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas, edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz (Seven Stories Press, 2025) Reviewing a reader is never easy, since such volumes are often uneven compilations of a...
Much has been written on the corporatization of American higher education, the defunding of public universities, and the broader neoliberal project that turned students into customers and faculty into precarious contract labor. However, far less...
Seher Aydar I think there are two main reasons. The first reason is that, even though many other countries see Norway as a kind of social democratic paradise, it is not. Of course, the situation...
It is an honor to be here alongside Senator Bernie Sanders. I want to share what Bernie has meant to me. It was Bernie’s campaign for the presidency in 2016 that gave me the language...
