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Winter 2025
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Scarlet Letter Politics
Those who stand to suffer most from Trump’s attack on Bill Clinton’s sexual history are neither he nor Hillary, but the women linked to him. Their private lives are once again going to be tabloid fodder.
Sanders and the Theory of Change: Radical Politics for Grown-Ups
Paul Krugman misunderstands the Sanders campaign’s theory of change. It isn’t that a high-minded leader can draw out our best selves and translate those into more humane lawmaking. It is that a campaign for a more equal democracy can build power, in networks of activists and across constituencies.
Belabored Podcast #95: Campaigning for Families with Ellen Bravo
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both announced plans to give workers paid family leave. Ellen Bravo of Family Values @ Work joins us to explain how this policy became central to both candidates’ campaigns.
A Message from Prague [Open Letter to Yanis Varoufakis]
Your new pan-European movement seeks to democratize Europe. In that case, it is essential that it is joined by people from Central Europe—where xenophobia, racism, and neo-fascism are dramatically on the rise.
Bernie Is Not the New Obama—And That’s a Good Thing
Bernie Sanders’ surge in recent national polls has brought inevitable comparisons to an insurgent candidate whose enthusiastic young supporters took Hillary Clinton by surprise eight years ago. But Sanders’s campaign is of a very different kind than Obama’s, with deeper potential and a different measure of success.
Hot & Bothered Pilot Episode: After Paris, What’s Next?
In a special podcast dispatch, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff discuss what the COP21 deal will mean for the climate movement in 2016. They hear from activists who were in the streets in Paris, and from UNFCCC veteran J. Timmons Roberts.
David Bowie Was Our Mirror
David Bowie’s lyrics were hard to mine for political content, but his songs will continue to suit moments they were never written for.
Belabored Podcast #94: Disrupting Uber
New legislation in Seattle could pave the way for Uber drivers to unionize. We explore the legal and political road ahead with Rebecca Smith of the National Employment Law Project and Takele Gobena of the App-Based Drivers Association.
Why Fighting Air Pollution and Stopping Climate Change Aren’t the Same Thing
Unless it’s done right, fighting air pollution in cities like Beijing and Delhi won’t necessarily reduce carbon emissions.
Belabored Podcast #93: The Good, The Bad, and the Hopeful
A look back at year’s best and worst moments for labor, and what there is to look forward to in 2016, for workers from China to Chicago and everywhere in between.
Booked: A Global History of Time
An interview with historian Vanessa Ogle about her new book The Global Transformation of Time.
Trumping History
The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in American history and culture.
Belabored Podcast #92: Don’t Mourn, Organize!
A celebration of pioneering union activist and radical troubadour Joe Hill.
The High Toll of Fast Fashion
The True Cost vividly documents the labor and environmental cost of our cheap clothes. The challenge it poses is direct: how can we stop this? But a deeper question remains: which “we”?
