Rebuilding the Democratic Coalition
While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.
Fall 2024
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What’s the Matter With the Democrats?
Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
The Decline of Union Hall Politics
To become a party based among workers again, Democrats must remember that partisan commitment often grows from local roots.
In the Shadow of King Coal
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
Industrial Policy Without Nationalism
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
My Favorite Mistake
It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game.
Family Planning
How should we live together and divide our labor?
How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.
Squad Goals
The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
The Problem With a Job Guarantee 
Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market.
Responses to Fred Block
Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.”
Great Symbols Enacted the Age!
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
A New Suburban Politics
A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life.
Two Cheers for Pragmatism
Bidenomics sought to solve big problems in a context of narrow congressional majorities.
The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
