Bringing Power to the People: The Unlikely Case for Utility Populism
Some 42 million Americans get their power from rural electric cooperatives. Reforming them could bring energy democracy to the Heartland—and fight climate change in the process.
Spring 2025
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Belabored Podcast #131: A Crisis of Care, with June Barrett and Saba Waheed
Home care is one of the most rapidly growing fields in the country, but workers and care recipients will be under threat if Trump slashes Medicaid. We talk about what’s at stake in the healthcare reform fight.
Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize
A standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement.
Why I Left Immigration Law
The U.S. immigration system demands penance from immigrants for the privilege of staying in the country and reinforces tired stereotypes about the global South. After four years, I could no longer be part of it.
Thanks to Trump, Workers May Soon Lose the Right to Bring Class-Action Lawsuits
In our legal system, there are only two things that corporations fear: jury trials and class-action lawsuits. The Supreme Court is poised to help them do away with both, in one fell swoop.
It Gets Wetter
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 refuses the typical binary of climate change fiction, offering hope for a future somewhere in between victory or ruin.
The Next Operation Dixie
Three labor organizers talk about their work combating racism and fighting for workers’ rights in the South.
Left in the Middle
Amid the failures of the Trump administration, the good news is that a left does exist in Red America—and is growing.
Introducing the special section of our Summer issue.
Censorship and the Politics of Art in Hong Kong
As Hong Kong marks twenty years since its return to Chinese sovereignty, Beijing’s tightening grip on the territory is calling into question its future as an international arts hub.
Belabored Podcast #130: Retail Warriors
In this special episode on the retail industry, organizers and workers from around the country talk about their fights to win fair wages and scheduling.
Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, and who killed the social-democratic city.
The New Working Class
Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today’s working class for what it really is.
Democrats Need More Than the Working Class
To win meaningful gains for working people, Democrats first need to win elections with the coalition they have.
Terror and Tyranny in Duterte’s Philippines
With hundreds dead and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting broke out in mid-May, the crisis in the Philippine city of Marawi has underlined not only the brutality of the Duterte regime, but the shortsightedness of its “leftist” collaborators.
What Happened to Workers’ Ed?
As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose.
