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They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.
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It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.
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How new approaches to worker organizing are finding success.
Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.
The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.
FDR’s labor secretary had a vision for forward-looking labor and employment policy.
The left has not articulated an alternative trade agenda that supports all the world’s workers in a global economy.
Three simple changes to corporate law could radically remake our economy.
When philosophy tries to reclaim Marx, the duty to interpret comes before the duty to change.
The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.
The public has paid for Musk’s vision. So why is the green economy still not here?
The philosopher Herbert Marcuse saw machines as our greatest hope for real liberty. But in Trump’s America, automation feels more totalitarian than ever.
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