Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the author of the just-published Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American HistoryHe is a co-founder and co-editor of the American Empire Project.

Children working as miners in Pennsylvania.

Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever

It should be a reminder of how deeply retrogressive capitalism has once again become both here at home and elsewhere across the planet.  

Jul 13, 2023 / Steve Fraser

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The Absurd Specter of “Woke Communism” The Absurd Specter of “Woke Communism”

Ironically, those decrying woke communism may be loony about “communism,” but they are unintentionally right that capitalism is indeed the problem.

Feb 21, 2023 / Steve Fraser

A cross held up in front of the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s Long History of Conservatism The Supreme Court’s Long History of Conservatism

From the beginning, the Supreme Court was conceived as a bulwark against excessive democracy, as indeed was the Constitution itself.

Sep 9, 2022 / Steve Fraser

Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President

Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President

His paranoid fantasies are for the masses, but they are propped up by plenty of elites.

Oct 16, 2020 / Steve Fraser

FDR speech 1944

The Greening of the New Deal The Greening of the New Deal

The New Deal succeeded in overcoming the existential threat of the Great Depression. Can the Green New Deal curb a much larger catastrophe?

Oct 18, 2019 / Steve Fraser

Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency

Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency

And it’s not the first time.

Apr 17, 2018 / Steve Fraser

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The Dinosaur and the Billionaire The Dinosaur and the Billionaire

The Democratic Party must learn to confront the institutions and elites that produced blue-collar dispossession.

Nov 11, 2016 / Steve Fraser

Liberalism Is Under Attack From the Left and the Right

Liberalism Is Under Attack From the Left and the Right Liberalism Is Under Attack From the Left and the Right

From feeling the Bern to cheering The Donald, Americans are done with acquiescing to the political establishment.

Jun 2, 2016 / Steve Fraser

What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age

What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age What We Can Learn From the Workers, Activists and Even Politicians Who Tore Down the First Gilded Age

Americans were furious at the inequalities of their country 200 years ago. Could they get as angry today?

Apr 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

How the Koch Brothers and Other Family Capitalists Are Ruining America

How the Koch Brothers and Other Family Capitalists Are Ruining America How the Koch Brothers and Other Family Capitalists Are Ruining America

Why are multibillionaires dictating how America teaches its youth, provides healthcare and collects taxes? 

Sep 11, 2014 / Steve Fraser

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