To Keep Meat on the Table, Workers Need a Voice
Essential workers need genuine, collective empowerment, not just a monetary reward or a rhetorical pat on the back.
Spring 2025
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Understanding the Unemployment Crisis
What’s behind the drive to “re-open”? Some state governments just want to return to how they previously used unemployment insurance: not to cushion the blow of job loss but to compel participation in the labor market.
The Catastrophe in New York City Jails
The survival of incarcerated people is dependent on slow-moving bureaucrats and the politically calculating whims of sadistic politicians.
The Pandemic and the Global Economy
Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, planning, and more—will avert further catastrophe.
The Pandemic Inside the Only Women’s Maximum-Security Prison in New York
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.
Elections in a Pandemic: The Crisis Response Should Be Permanent Policy
The best way to keep people safe during this election season is also the best way to maximize participation: give people the widest possible range of opportunities to register and to vote.
When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way.
The Sovereign Fed
In terms of crisis governance, the United States is not a country with a central bank. It is a central bank with a country.
The Banal Transnationalism of the Far Right
When we exoticize the radical right, it becomes harder to comprehend their operations and the political and social context in which they are rooted.
John Prine’s Poetry of Human Connection
Prine was a friend of those left behind by progress and put down by other people. But his songs were all part of a larger universe where laughter and joy prevailed.
Beyond the Virus
Trump’s refusal to accept accountability for anything in this crisis is emblematic of something in our culture.
Witnessing War, with Carolyn Forché
The author of What You Have Heard Is True talks about her political education in El Salvador.
How the Criminal Justice System Preys on the Poor
In our financialized era, policing, adjudication, and punishment have been reorganized as resource extraction operations.
Where Everything Old Is New Again
Benjamin Netanyahu has used the coronavirus to resuscitate his political career.
Social Reproduction and the Pandemic, with Tithi Bhattacharya
The coronavirus crisis has made clear that care and life-making work are the essential work of society.
