A Nation of Migrants
Thinking of the United States as a nation of immigrants may promote inclusivity in a time of rising xenophobia, but it also serves to exclude and obscure what the U.S. really is: a nation of migrants.
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Booked: What Is the Anthropocene?
Jedediah Purdy explains why there is no more “nature” independent of human activity—and what that means for our politics.
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and Her Role in the Black Freedom Struggle
Among her many achievements, Grace Lee Boggs should be remembered for her deep involvement in Detroit’s black freedom movement and role in articulating a new brand of class politics rooted in the experience of black workers.
The Syriza Problem
Greece’s Syriza party has substituted rhetorical bluster for concrete plans—and has had an extraordinary free ride from the global left even as it has become the party of surrender.
Belabored Podcast #87: Class War in the Classroom
Megan Erickson joins us to discuss her new book, Class War: The Privatization of Childhood, and how education can’t solve inequality, but can become less unequal.
Mark Zuckerberg, Joshua Wong, and the Curious Lure of the Chinese Market
Last week, while some commentators mused on the possibility of Pope Francis and Xi Jinping bumping into each other during their dueling high-profile U.S. tours, I pondered instead what two much younger men would say if they ran into each …
Belabored Podcast #86: Loving and Loathing Work, with Miya Tokumitsu
Does our basic humanity suffer as we pursue our “dream jobs”? We speak with Miya Tokumitsu, who examines the dangers of the “do what you love” ethic in her new book. Plus: the Seattle teachers’ strike, LA sweatshop struggles, adjunct agony, and the latest in the campaign for workers’ rights at Walmart.
Booked: The Joshuas Cohen
An interview with Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
Farmworkers: Rising Again?
Fifty years after the founding of the United Farm Workers, farmworker activism has been reborn in a new form.
The Refugee Crisis Will Not Be Solved by Volunteers Bringing Blankets
Activist Bálint Misetics, who has witnessed the situation in Budapest in the past days, speaks with Political Critique editor Veronika Pehe about Hungary’s response to the refugee crisis.
The European Crisis
The EU as a whole is once again, as Europe was in the 1930s, a world of borders and refusals.
The Myth of “Do What You Love”
What if the prize you win for landing that dream job is just more stress, more pressure, and still not enough money or free time to enjoy it?
Belabored Podcast #85: Joint Responsibilities, with Larry Engelstein
The National Labor Relations Board made news last week when it ruled to revise its definition of a joint employer to include many business owners who get their workers through a temp agency or subcontractor. We discussed what this means for workers with Larry Engelstein of SEIU 32BJ.
Fair Housing Needs More Than Heroes
At the end of the Yonkers fair housing battle depicted in the new David Simon mini-series Show Me a Hero, 200 poor black and Latino families were housed on the affluent side of the city. But a quarter-century later, a long-standing pattern of residential segregation and concentrated poverty persists nationwide.
The Ambiguities of Heroism
Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler had a remarkably high, democratic morale. But it will take more than heroes to overcome today’s political violence.
