State of the Unions
The latest numbers on union membership in the public and private sectors are not pretty.
Spring 2025
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Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye
What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.
Where the Caravan Stopped
Thousands of asylum seekers living in shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border face an uncertain future. Thousands more are heading north. A report from Tijuana.
Remembering Erik Olin Wright
Wright will be remembered as an iconic thinker who embodied the socialist vision that he worked so hard to bring forth.
Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
A report from the picket line.
Joy Amid the Ruins in 2018
A look back on the year at Dissent.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Jeff Bezos Has Enough!
Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?
Belabored Podcast #165: Communities Unite for Border Resistance, with Cosecha Movement
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
Belabored Podcast #164: Scott Walker’s Gone, Now What? With Eleni Schirmer
Bye Scott Walker.
The Great Race Panic
White supremacists are seeing the limits of what they can achieve electorally. Now, the raging fear Trump inflames threatens escalating violence.
Hate Was Not a Winning Ticket
Contrary to Trumpian fantasy, noncitizens didn’t get a direct say in the midterms. But their voices still mattered on Election Day.
The Democrats’ Existential Battle: Achieving Real Democracy
To preserve their minority rule, Republicans will keep putting up barriers to voting. The only solution is to deepen democracy.
Belabored Podcast #163: Organizing for Democracy, with Meg Reilly
Meg Reilly of the Campaign Workers Guild joins us to talk about the first movement to unionize the workers who canvass the streets, run the phone banks, and carry the clipboards.
When Economists Took Socialism Seriously
If there’s one thing worth taking away from the White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument, not just a technical exercise.
