The Dinosaur and the Billionaire The Dinosaur and the Billionaire
The Democratic Party must learn to confront the institutions and elites that produced blue-collar dispossession.
Nov 11, 2016 / Steve Fraser
Hate Like This Is Spreading Across the Country. Will Donald Trump Denounce It? Hate Like This Is Spreading Across the Country. Will Donald Trump Denounce It?
While Trump complains about protesters on Twitter, white supremacists are committing hate crimes in his name.
Nov 11, 2016 / Samantha Schuyler
Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism’s relationship to class politics.
Nov 11, 2016 / Kathleen Geier
Donald Trump Won on White-Male Resentment—but Don’t Confuse That With the Working Class Donald Trump Won on White-Male Resentment—but Don’t Confuse That With the Working Class
The numbers tell a different story.
Nov 10, 2016 / Monica Potts
This Trade Deal Would Make It a Whole Lot Harder to Fight Climate Change This Trade Deal Would Make It a Whole Lot Harder to Fight Climate Change
If the Trade in Services Agreement passes, individual countries wouldn’t be able to prioritize building a clean-energy infrastructure over fossil fuels.
Nov 10, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Plain People Spoke on November 8. Will the Powerful Listen? The Plain People Spoke on November 8. Will the Powerful Listen?
Like it or not, Tuesday’s ballot-box rebellion was a profound act of small-d democracy.
Nov 9, 2016 / William Greider
Inequality Gave Rise to Donald Trump’s Presidency Inequality Gave Rise to Donald Trump’s Presidency
But few of the 60 million Americans who cast their votes for Trump want to see a more top-heavy America.
Nov 9, 2016 / Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Sam Pizzigati
Why Trump Won Why Trump Won
The Obama coalition works only if Democrats don’t throw white working people out of the boat.
Nov 9, 2016 / Robert L. Borosage
How Much Did Alan Greenspan Really Know? How Much Did Alan Greenspan Really Know?
Despite the efforts of a new biographer, it seems that Greenspan was more flying by the seat of his pants than acting as a strategic policy-maker.
Nov 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Madrick
Coping With the Blows: Mexican Wrestling Goes Global Coping With the Blows: Mexican Wrestling Goes Global
Lucha libre is a stylized struggle between good and evil that has been part of Mexican popular culture since the 1920s. Now its appeal has spread to North America and Japan.
Nov 9, 2016 / Benjamin Fernandez