The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Breakthrough
How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
Spring 2022
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Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19
This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.
How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme
“Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families.
Belabored: Cyborg Taylorism in the Warehouse, with Beth Gutelius
How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?
Toxic Finance
The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms has revealed an infrastructure problem made worse by the way the United States finances improvements to school buildings.
The Political Philosophy of Care
In Reckoning, Deva Woodly makes a case for radical Black feminist pragmatism, a philosophy “that takes lessons from many twentieth-century ideologies and forges them into a political ethic for our times.”
A Democratic Vision for Antitrust
The antitrust reform project wants to contain domination and expand autonomy—key principles of a left political project.
Is There an Alternative? The Macroeconomics of the Biden Administration
The response to COVID-19 proved that the federal government is far more capable of managing the economy than many people thought. What happens now that Bidenomics faces rising headwinds?
Belabored: Dangerous Work, with Debbie Berkowitz and Xian Barrett
Workers are being asked, once again, to keep working despite a surge in COVID-19 infections. As employers push for a return to “normal,” how should we deal with the risks of returning to work?
A New Era?
The work of the left at this moment is to understand what new spaces have opened up and how to build upon them.
Introducing our Winter 2022 special section, “Beyond Bidenomics.”
The Deep History of Climate Change
An interview with Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
