Forget the avocado toast. Popular narratives about downwardly mobile millennials and their spending habits overlook a key factor in why young people have been hit so hard by today’s housing crisis: class.
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Belabored Podcast #162: A Struggle Over Union Democracy at UPS, with Nelson Lichtenstein
The majority of Teamster members at UPS voted to reject a proposed contract; leadership says they’ll ratify it anyway. How did this happen? Nelson Lichtenstein joins us to discuss the ongoing conflict.
Booked: Valuing the World, with Mariana Mazzucato
In her new book, economist Mariana Mazzucato explodes the myth that wealth is created solely by a select few trailblazing entrepreneurs, and lays out how our collective innovation can be put into the service of a more equal economy.
All Roads Lead To Wall Street
Calls for unions and activists to transform Wall Street from the inside have proliferated since 2008. But when progressives organize as shareholders, their good intentions inevitably run up against a fundamental obstacle: the bottom line.
Antiprogressivism: A Specter Haunting the Americas
The fascistic Jair Bolsonaro nearly scraped a first-round victory in Brazil, an ominous sign both for the left and for the country’s democracy. But the values he espouses go far beyond Brazil, and it is up to the left to devise new alternatives.
Brazil’s Coalition Against Democracy
Jair Bolsonaro’s electorate—a loose coalition brought together by the candidate’s appeal to “bullets, bibles, and bulls”—stands perilously close to dragging Brazil back into authoritarianism.
Balancing Act
If two recent analyses of populism agree on one thing, it’s that democracy and capitalism have fallen out of balance. Less clear is how—or whether—the truce between them should be restored.
Watch: The Future of the Left in the Americas
Watch videos of all eight panels at our conference on the Future of the Left in the Americas, October 5–6 at the New School.
The Factory That Ate Wisconsin
Touted by Republicans as a case study in reviving U.S. manufacturing, Foxconn’s new factory in Wisconsin only reveals the failings of the GOP agenda. To defeat Scott Walker in November, Democrats will have to show there’s a better way to create good jobs.
Belabored Podcast #161: Workers Resist, Workers Rule
We look at two types of fights for workplace justice: the worker-owned cooperatives now mushrooming across the country, and a global protest at airports around the world.
How Real Estate Segregated America
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
The Housing Revolution We Need
A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda. Could this generation finally make the right to housing a reality?
Introducing the special section of our Fall issue.
Humble the Supremes
It is time for Congress to rein in the exaggerated powers of the most undemocratic branch of the U.S. government: the Supreme Court.
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