Economics

At Labor’s Crossroads

At Labor’s Crossroads At Labor’s Crossroads

Three new books about the SEIU reveal the challenges of organizing in 21st-century America.

Mar 8, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rich Yeselson

Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump

Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump

A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.

Mar 8, 2017 / Feature / Sarah Leonard and Rebecca Rojer

Rex Tillerson hearing

Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive

If Trump continues his assault on common sense about climate change, America is going to lose—and lose big.

Mar 7, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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When Did Solidarity Among Working Women Become a ‘Privilege’? When Did Solidarity Among Working Women Become a ‘Privilege’?

Women who are concern trolling the strike seem most interested in persuading us to work with the Democratic Party.

Mar 7, 2017 / Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruzza

The Promise of Prosperity

The Promise of Prosperity The Promise of Prosperity

One family’s turn from hope in Poland’s Law and Justice party to disillusionment.

Mar 7, 2017 / Adam Przybyl

Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans

Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans

But we are not going to be played like this.

Mar 7, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order

Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order

Despite profound discontent, the prospect of an exit from the neoliberal orthodoxies of the past 40 years terrifies even those who know how much they have suffered from it.

Mar 6, 2017 / Perry Anderson

The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again

The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again

White House adviser Steve Bannon insists that Muslims don’t have the right “DNA” for democracy.

Mar 6, 2017 / Joan Walsh

Kenny Chapman, 53, receives coins from a man

Our Political Economy Is Designed to Create Poverty and Inequality Our Political Economy Is Designed to Create Poverty and Inequality

Poverty is not an abstraction. People wear it on their faces, carry it on their backs as a constant companion—and it is heavy.

Mar 6, 2017 / Dennis Kucinich

Wilbur Ross

Everything Trump Did in His 6th Week That Really Matters Everything Trump Did in His 6th Week That Really Matters

Behind the scenes, a lot happened this week at several federal agencies. 

Mar 3, 2017 / George Zornick and Zoë Carpenter

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