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A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.
How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.
Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.
How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.
Lessons from the new alliances between labor and climate activism.
New local labor laws aim to end worker exploitation. Can bureaucrats serve that vision?
The state structures society. It can make us more prone to care for one another.
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.
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Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda?
Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?
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American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
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To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
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