Tag: Politics

Articles in class & inequality tagged with politics

Robin D. G. Kelley Deborah Chasman

“Fascism never disappears because people come to their senses.”

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

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Martijn Konings

The Asset Economy Strikes Again

The Federal Reserve’s bid to “get wages down” reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.

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Jonathan Kirshner

The Education of Ben Bernanke

In his new book, the former Fed chair cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

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Portrait of historian Robin D.G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley

Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

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Mie Inouye

Labor’s Militant Minority

How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

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Lucy Song

The Elite Capture of Asian American Politics

By casting doubt on multiracial working-class solidarity, Jay Caspian Kang’s critique of professional identity politics fails on its own terms.

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Simon Torracinta

Bad Economics

How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.

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Celina Su

Budgeting Justice

Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change

Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.

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Jonathan Kirshner

Misreading Inflation

Why we should err on the side of inaction—and why we won’t.

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