Workers Don’t Need Trump to Give Them a Voice. They Need Unions. Workers Don’t Need Trump to Give Them a Voice. They Need Unions.
The key to rebuilding the working class is labor organizing, not scapegoating people of color and immigrants.
Nov 18, 2016 / David Madland
Rudolph Giuliani Can’t Stand the Constitution Rudolph Giuliani Can’t Stand the Constitution
Remember when he was mayor?
Nov 17, 2016 / Alex S. Vitale
Why Do White Working-Class People Vote Against Their Interests? They Don’t. Why Do White Working-Class People Vote Against Their Interests? They Don’t.
Corporate Democrats have never advanced their interests—and at least Republicans offer a persuasive story about why they are getting screwed.
Nov 17, 2016 / Kirk Noden
How to Welcome Refugees to the United States How to Welcome Refugees to the United States
Affirming refugees’ economic rights and dignity is more than charity; it’s an act of national redemption.
Nov 17, 2016 / Michelle Chen
How We Can Fight Trump How We Can Fight Trump
Progressives must lead the Democratic Party and develop its economic populism.
Nov 15, 2016 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
12 Coal Miners Died on This Man’s Watch in 2006. Now Trump Wants to Make Him Commerce Secretary. 12 Coal Miners Died on This Man’s Watch in 2006. Now Trump Wants to Make Him Commerce Secretary.
So much for Trump’s supposed commitment to coalfield workers.
Nov 15, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
How to Make Technology Actually Work for Workers How to Make Technology Actually Work for Workers
Rather than speeding offshoring and making workers redundant, technology can be a means of organizing and empowering them.
Nov 15, 2016 / Michelle Chen
These Spanish Activists Have Taken Punishing Bankers Into Their Own Hands These Spanish Activists Have Taken Punishing Bankers Into Their Own Hands
Their work is a model for citizen action against the architects of financial collapse.
Nov 14, 2016 / Anne Koch
Keith Ellison Is the Leader the DNC Needs Keith Ellison Is the Leader the DNC Needs
The Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair argues that if Democrats stand on principle and put resources into organizing, they will win.
Nov 11, 2016 / John Nichols
Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism’s relationship to class politics.
Nov 11, 2016 / Kathleen Geier