Grief Circling
When our grief has structural causes, it can be the ground of struggle and a utopian political force.
Winter 2025
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Will COVID-19 Spur a Wave of Unionization?
Workers have been infuriated by the callous treatment they’ve received in their workplaces. Many of them recognized that the most surefire way to get their employers to provide the protection they needed was through collective action.
How the Relief Effort Ran Aground
At each step, poor implementation has weakened the U.S. recovery effort.
Solidarity Across Species
The destruction and exploitation of non-human life has forced different kinds of animals into closer and closer contact with each other, increasing the likelihood that viruses like COVID-19 will emerge.
Coronavirus and the Surveillance State
The evolution of information technologies will beckon us to expand the powers of governments, especially when we believe they would serve the common good, like during a pandemic. A bit of reflection should give us pause.
The Disease Map of Rural America
In the hardest-hit rural communities, the collective immune system was already fatally compromised. They were deep into a decades-old crisis when the pandemic arrived.
Why Hong Kongers Fight
After weathering decades of disappointment, Hong Kongers understand that there is no tomorrow waiting. The future is not guaranteed, but must be won.
Democracy on Hold
We’ve long heard about a decline in democracy. Canceled elections put this state of affairs into stark perspective.
Dismantle Racial Capitalism
The COVID crisis has cast into stark relief what has always been true: the wealth and prosperity of the U.S. economy rests on the labor, and the lives, of black and brown people.
Bring Back Health Planning
We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned according to the needs of communities—and the certainty of future disasters.
Conservative Incoherence
The conservative response to COVID-19 has been defined by its heterogeneity: a blur of contradictory recriminations, confirmation biases, and conspiracy peddling.
The Dignity of Labor
Despite the outpouring of praise for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, their own interests continue to come second to the broader public’s need for cheap and reliable labor.
Europe: Will This Crisis Be Different?
As the 2008 financial crisis made clear, without major change at the European level, social democratic responses to the coronavirus crisis will be out of reach for many countries across the continent.
The Case for Universal Voting
Universal civic duty voting would represent a milestone in the two-century-long struggle to expand the franchise.
Mississippi Freedom Summer—20 Years Later
In memory of John Lewis, we feature his 1985 reflections on the Mississippi Freedom Summer in Dissent.
