Belabored Podcast #121: Trading Our Rights Away? With Arthur Stamoulis and John Cavanagh
Will Trump’s renegotiated trade deals be any better for workers—in the United States and abroad—than the old ones?
Spring 2025
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Between the Lines
A new collection of Elena Ferrante’s correspondence and interviews illuminates how Ferrante pulled away from a male-dominated tradition to define her own genre of popular feminist literature.
Booked: Capitalizing on Rural Resentment, with Katherine J. Cramer
Katherine J. Cramer talks about her new book, The Politics of Resentment, and how the right exploits rural-urban divides to promote a populist image.
The Lemming Democrats
Why do they keep marching off the same cliff? Instead of one doomed, issueless campaign after another, the Democrats need a new class politics.
An Economist’s Case for Open Borders
Amid today’s xenophobic tide, economist Branko Milanovic has made a controversial case for opening the borders—but without offering migrants full rights as citizens. Would such an arrangement reduce inequality, or only exacerbate the problems that have brought us to this point?
How to Bring Down a Dictator: Reading Gene Sharp in Trump’s America
The Trump administration poses a serious threat to liberal democracy, and we need to respond accordingly. Gene Sharp, the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” offers valuable insights into how.
France: The Death of the Elephants
With this year’s elections, French politics has become less predictable than at any time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. It remains to be seen whether this volatility will reward the left—or the populist far right.
Signs of Our Time
The outpouring of witty protest signs at recent anti-Trump protests is something new in the repertoire of social movements. But the thrilling horizontalism that the signs reflect has its limits.
The Petrostate Secretary
Rex Tillerson’s confirmation as Secretary of State threatens a return to a foreign policy driven by the pursuit of oil, whatever the human and environmental cost.
Bargaining with Silicon Valley
Gig economy bosses—including the CEOs of both Uber and Lyft—are using a narrative of technological inevitability to undermine labor law and the social safety net.
To the Barricades!
As this weekend’s airport protesters recognized, it takes more than courts to defend constitutional rights.
Against Progressive Neoliberalism, A New Progressive Populism
To establish a counterhegemony against that of finance capital, we must build a new, “progressive-populist” bloc combining the goals of emancipation and social protection.
Belabored Podcast #120: Meet the New Boss, with Andrew Stettner
Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk about Trump’s cabinet picks, and what they mean for labor.
Feminist Organizing After the Women’s March: Lessons from the Second Wave
While its vision of equality is still far from being fully realized, the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s won important victories and offers vital lessons for today’s organizers.
At the Women’s Marches
Dissent editors reflect on the weekend’s marches.
