A Political and Literary Forum
Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.
Mike Konczal
The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns.
Jessa Crispin
U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.
Daniel Carpenter
Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.
Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers
Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.
Todd Wolfson, Astra Taylor
In 1961 Frank Kameny became the first person to ask the Supreme Court to protect the employment rights of homosexuals. The fact that the Court finally has—sixty years later—points to both the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to activism.
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support. COVID-19 may finally change all that.
Julie Kohler
The deep, growing divisions in U.S. society have an outsize effect in determining who suffers from this pandemic—as well as how the government responds.
Rajan Menon, Jeffrey Kucik
Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.
Anne L. Alstott
When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots. Their writings demonstrates the power of poetry to help oppressed people heal from trauma and organize their political thinking.
Mark Nowak
A new geoeconomic order is creating opportunities for organizing along supply chains.
Manoj Dias-Abey
The right response to COVID-19 is to rebuild our economy from the ground up, putting people to work in a massive jobs program to secure the public health of all.
Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski
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