Women and Black Lives Matter: An Interview with Marcia Chatelain
The women of Black Lives Matter are not bending to the demands of respectability politics. They are carving out space for black women to fight for justice.
Spring 2025
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Ferguson Revisited
One year after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that made Ferguson shorthand for economic, political, and carceral injustice remain unchanged.
Belabored Podcast #83: Austerity and Solidarity in Greece, with Sarah Leonard
What’s happening in Greece? Sarah Leonard, who just returned from a reporting trip to the country, joins us to explain what just happened and what’s next for the working people of Greece and the rest of austerity-ridden Europe.
Permanent Emergency: The Bomb and the Democratic Process
Seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, we still live in the mushroom cloud of secrecy and permanent emergency imposed by nuclear weapons.
The Fracktivists
Far from being a NIMBY conceit, the anti-fracking movement is central to the global fight against climate change—and for a more just, sustainable economy.
Between Pain and Despair: What Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Missing
For all his channeling of James Baldwin, Coates seems to have forgotten that black people “can’t afford despair.”
Out of Sight: The Labor Abuses Behind What We Eat
The food industry outsources production for the same reasons as other industries—to pollute and to exploit workers while minimizing resistance from locals and labor.
Beyond the Petrostate: Ecuador’s Left Dilemma
In Ecuador, to oppose resource extraction is to be an enemy of the state.
Belabored Podcast #82: Labor Rising in New Media, with Justin Molito
Writers Guild of America East is the union behind recent public organizing campaigns at two digital media outlets—Gawker Media and Salon.com. We talked to their director of organizing, Justin Molito.
Lab City: The Limits of Pop-up Problem Solving
The museum world’s fad for “urban labs” shows the limits of design thinking.
The Next Civil Rights Movement?
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
Tell It to Polaris
An excerpt from Joshua Cohen’s new novel Book of Numbers.
Booked: On Their Way to Freedom
An interview with Eric Foner on the underground railroad in New York, how history helps us to understand change, and why the left should talk more about freedom.
Why Labor Moved Left
After decades of defeat, organized labor has become the domain of reluctant radicals.
Belabored Podcast #81: Live, with Who Makes Cents?
Audio from our live discussion on labor and the history of capitalism, with Betsy Beasley and David Stein.
