What Should Unions Do Now?
For U.S. labor, this is a moment of great peril but also great potential, unmatched since the New Deal era.
Fall 2025
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Collective Bargaining 3.0
In addition to reimagining who workers bargain with, we must expand what they bargain for. Public sector unions often address similar issues at the bargaining table that community organizations tackle legislatively.
Labor Needs New Ideas
Labor needs to argue more. Unions always need solidarity, but it should not be the solidarity of the stolid and defeated.
Toward a Post-Zionist Left
The left must move beyond the false binaries of liberal Zionism and embrace a post-Zionist politics of civil rights and nonviolent resistance.
With a counter-argument by Susie Linfield.
Is a Left Zionism Possible?
The spirit of left Zionism, which was strong enough to build a country, has receded to the margins of Israeli politics. Can it be revived?
With a counter-argument by Joshua Leifer.
A Defense of Civil Libertarianism 
Defending civil liberties is not merely a “strategy” or a means to some other end. One can, and should, oppose both torture and endless war.
In response to Samuel Moyn.
Civil Liberties and Endless War
Civil libertarians have tolerated the normalization of perpetual, if more sanitary, war.
With a response by David Cole.
No Cheers For Anarchism
Anarchists are better dreamers than doers. A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and leadership to actually get things done.
The Anarchist Spirit
Many popular movements around the world today oppose hierarchy and embrace direct democracy. This is a spirit that we should applaud and help to flourish.
Alaska Melting
As Alaska warms and glaciers melt, state leaders continue to ignore the role of fossil fuels in climate change and press for additional oil development.
An Environmentalism for the Left
Economic insecurity produces insatiable demands on nature. This is the point where environmentalist and egalitarian projects meet.
Raze the Carceral State
We need to resist the belief that the only way to end mass incarceration is to tackle the root causes of crime.
With a counter-argument by Michael Javen Fortner.
Beyond Criminal Justice Reform
Real criminal justice reform demands profound social change. The fixation on severe sentences and police brutality masks harder truths.
With a counter-argument by Marie Gottschalk.
After Marriage Equality, What?
We must tally not only the advantages but also the costs of the LGBT rights movement’s strategic turn to marriage equality.
Spinning With Obama
We should not to take refuge in the comforting fallacy that Obama’s failings have been nothing more than the result of bad spin.
