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Law & Justice, Politics

American Democracy Is in the Mail

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

Daniel Carpenter

Class & Inequality

Six Labor Policies We Need Now

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

Class & Inequality

Beyond the Neoliberal University

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.

Todd Wolfson, Astra Taylor

Gender & Sexuality

The Long Fight for LGBT Labor Equality

In 1961 Frank Kameny became the first person to ask the Supreme Court to protect the employment rights of homosexuals. The fact that the Court finally has—sixty years later—points to both the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to activism.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Class & Inequality

The End of Family Values

Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support. COVID-19 may finally change all that.

Julie Kohler

Class & Inequality

We're Not All In It Together

The deep, growing divisions in U.S. society have an outsize effect in determining who suffers from this pandemic—as well as how the government responds.

Rajan Menon, Jeffrey Kucik

Gender & Sexuality

Mothering in a Pandemic

Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.

Anne L. Alstott

Arts in Society

Solidarity Through Poetry

When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots. Their writings demonstrates the power of poetry to help oppressed people heal from trauma and organize their political thinking.

Mark Nowak

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

International Labor Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic

A new geoeconomic order is creating opportunities for organizing along supply chains.

Manoj Dias-Abey

Politics

The New Politics of Care

The right response to COVID-19 is to rebuild our economy from the ground up, putting people to work in a massive jobs program to secure the public health of all.

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski

Class & Inequality

Work After Quarantine

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our labor markets just as much as the fragility of our public health and welfare systems. As we take the economy out of its induced coma, we should ask what kinds of jobs we want and need.

Brishen Rogers

Politics

“Hello, We Are from Wisconsin, and We Are Your Future”

As Wisconsinites are forced to vote during a pandemic, it’s worth recalling the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, and the valuable lessons that can be gleaned from labor organizing in the face of disaster.

Eleni Schirmer

       

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