Union Power After the Election
The development of a social democratic faction in the Democratic Party has given labor a chance to punch above its weight. But access alone isn’t power.
Fall 2024
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No Power without Organizing
Workers must build durable collective identities on their own behalf, and unions must institutionalize that social solidarity.
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights
Two new histories show how the CIO of the 1930s and ’40s led the charge for racial equality not just on the shop floor but at the national level, precipitating the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights.
Bad New Days
This will likely be seen as one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history—above all, in institutionalizing the GOP as an unchecked vehicle for racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny.
How Labor Advocates Pushed the Democratic Party Left
The cultural-political influence of unions is rising even as membership declines.
Labor Needs New Ideas
Labor needs to argue more. Unions always need solidarity, but it should not be the solidarity of the stolid and defeated.
Where’s the Outrage?
As historian Steve Fraser sees it, we should look toward the “long nineteenth century” for inspiration in constructing a new, lasting American resistance to capitalism.
Social Democracy in America?
Lane Kenworthy delivers a crisp manifesto for an “American” version of social democracy. But can his vision transcend Republican extremism, union decline, and our country’s racial heterogeneity?
