Tom Hayden (1939-2016)
A leader in a movement that was already ambivalent about leadership, Tom Hayden was incandescent—all intensity, all intelligence, full of a righteous indignation that I shared.
Spring 2025
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Red Lines, Black Lives
A new digital archive reveals the extent of the federal government’s role in fueling and enforcing midcentury housing discrimination.
America’s Other Election
Rolling back Republican domination in the states will not be easy. But it is a battle that must be joined.
On Blueness: A Conversation with Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett talks about writing poetry after Ferguson.
The TPP’s Last Stand
A fast-tracked trade agreement of this scale, passed by a lame-duck Congress, would be doubly illegitimate.
China’s Feminist Five
China’s younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and families are the foundation of the country’s political stability.
Belabored Podcast #114: Striking the Ivory Tower, with Harvard Workers
We speak with two Harvard workers, Kecia Pugh and Anabela Pappas, and UNITE HERE organizer Tiffany Ten Eyck about the ongoing strike at the country’s most elite university.
Hot & Bothered Podcast #5: Time for a Green New Deal, with Robert Pollin
Economist Robert Pollin joins us to introduce a new series on the promise—and practicalities—of a Green New Deal. We also get an update from Standing Rock, where the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline continues.
Rethinking Populism
Donald Trump’s candidacy may have peaked. But, from the United States to Britain and beyond, the discontent fueling the far right won’t fade so quickly. Can a new, left-wing populism seize on it—and rebuild democracy in the process?
Prison Uprisings, From Attica to Today
Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, discusses the uprising and the current wave of prison strikes.
What’s Left for Brazil?
Dilma and Lula have been refashioned as leftists in defeat. But for the Workers’ Party, it might be too late.
Gender Trouble in Poland
Poland’s proposed abortion ban is part of a broader attack on women by the right-wing PiS government, which has sought to banish the word “gender” itself from the country’s vocabulary. But Polish feminists and their allies are fighting back.
A Feminism for Tomorrow: Introduction
What are feminists thinking and doing today? We cast an eye to movements in the United States and abroad to help us imagine—and strategize—a more pluralist, and radical, feminism.
Introducing our Fall special section.
Belabored Podcast #113: Chicago Teachers Strike Back, with Sarah Chambers
The Chicago Teachers Union is on the verge of another major strike—one that could be even longer and nastier than the union’s landmark 2012 fight. Public school teacher and CTU activist Sarah Chambers lays out the stakes.
Booked: Learning How to Be a Black Man in America, with Mychal Denzel Smith
An interview with Mychal Denzel Smith about his book, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and why the language of universalism is not going to solve all of our problems.
