Rebuilding the Democratic Coalition
While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.
While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.
Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
To become a party based among workers again, Democrats must remember that partisan commitment often grows from local roots.
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game.
How should we live together and divide our labor?
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.
The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market.
Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.”
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life.
Bidenomics sought to solve big problems in a context of narrow congressional majorities.
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.