Class & Inequality, Race

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

David Stein

Forum

The Right to Strike

Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman

Forum

Work Inequality Basic Income

Our new issue explores basic income as a salve for financial precarity and a path toward racial justice and equality.

Literature & Culture

In Memoriam: Neil Gordon

As a writer and literary editor, Neil Gordon was committed to the debate between purity of conviction and worldy engagement. 

Joshua Cohen

Class & Inequality

Trump's Sleight of Hand Will Bring Ruin to American Workers

Trump's policies spell disaster for economic equality. And the worst is yet to come.

Lauren Carasik

Class & Inequality

A Jobless Utopia?

A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.

David McDermott Hughes

Forum

Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Beyond Racism and Misogyny

Black feminism and the 2 Live Crew.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Literature & Culture

Radicalism Begins in the Body

Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”

Junot Díaz, Samuel R. Delany

Class & Inequality

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Literature & Culture

Ash Wednesday

“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”

Samuel R. Delany

Poetry

Astralize the Night

Anne Carson’s new work, Float, is a boxed set of twenty-two chapbooks in which the poet plays with different voices.

John James

Class & Inequality, Race

No Racial Justice Without Basic Income

A basic income that supplemented existing welfare structures could make everyone safer while ending the most pernicious forms of policing.

The Undercommons

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Works

Recipients of basic income continue to work, spend less on vice, and are able to invest in long-term plans.

Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

Anke Hassel