A close look at the experiences of immigrants should lead us to the conclusion that First World nations have no right to exclude Third World migrants, including the unauthorized economic migrants that dominate contemporary political debates.
The important issue today isn’t what the world has done to millennials. It’s what millennials are going to do next—and where they’ll look for leadership.
While acknowledging the ongoing emotional and institutional power of the nation as a community of shared fate, we are also clear-eyed about its limitations given the scale of today’s challenges.
In July 1963, “Jim Crow Must Go In Brooklyn!” became the rallying cry of scores of men, women, and children resisting segregation.
A lifetime of studying politics doesn’t guarantee that you’ll understand what’s happening now, and having been right once before isn’t much help either.
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
If the humanities can’t produce thinkers who can get us out of this mess, they are still producing some of the best commentators on where it has come from and where it threatens to take us.
Immigration didn’t cause the economic restructuring that began in the 1970s, or the inequality and labor degradation that came with it.
Poulantzas tried to envision how the left could simultaneously champion rank-and-file democracy at a distance from the state and push for radical transformation from within it.
In the ideas of Jean-Claude Michéa, we can see what a left populism fully divorced from liberalism might look like.
A Wisconsin law stripped their union of its rights. So the teachers got to work.
The late writer’s displays of moral courage will serve as a kind of record for future historians, proof of the efforts of Israelis who did not stand idly by as their country’s skies darkened—as well as proof of their shortcomings.
Workers must build durable collective identities on their own behalf, and unions must institutionalize that social solidarity.
“This is about reviving a labor movement that really fights for the working class.”
We must once again imagine a legal regime that encourages workers’ collective activity and gives their organizations real power in the governing process.
