Latinos and the New American Majority
Pan-Latino identity, once the result of a sort of strained political imagination, is increasingly real—and recognizing its potency will be central to building a new progressive movement in the United States.
Winter 2026
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The French Left Divided
This summer, France’s Socialist government quashed the country’s largest wave of strikes of protests in a generation to impose a drastic overhaul of French labor law, revealing deeper fault lines in the process.
This Is Not a Market
How one bad metaphor leads our economic thinking astray.
Belabored Podcast #109: Forum for Change, with Nathalie Guay
A sneak preview of the labor events happening at the World Social Forum next week in Montreal.
Black Women and the Carceral State
Two new books illustrate the central role of black women’s convict labor in the construction of the Jim Crow South, white womanhood, and American capitalism writ large.
Vote for $15
Now approaching its fourth anniversary, the Fight for $15 has transformed a magnetic labor rallying cry into a popular grassroots movement, making the once unimaginable the new normal and helping to put inequality at the center of national debate.
An Anti-Trump Electoral Strategy That Isn’t Pro-Clinton
In order both to defeat Trump and build a base that can sustain a grassroots mass movement, the Democratic Socialists of America are turning their efforts toward voter protection. National director Maria Svart explains.
Lenny Skutnik’s Convention
Over the last several convention cycles, we have seen more and more everyday heroes and victims take the place of politicians on the center stage of national politics.
Bernie Sanders, Sheepdog Socialist
“We always knew that this was just the beginning,” says Sanders delegate Sandy Przybylak. “I’m looking to what Bernie has inspired for decades to come.”
Bill and Hillary: Biography as History
What Hillary needed—and got—last night was a biography reboot. If Bill Clinton’s valentine to his wife was characteristically a bit windy, it deftly painted a picture of her as a lifelong progressive who gets things done.
Trumpism: The Fight Ahead
The political task for the left is not just to defeat Trump, but to overcome the conditions that have led millions to support him.
Belabored Podcast #108: Philly Airport Workers Rising Up, with Gabe Morgan
Airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport just voted to strike next week during the Democratic National Convention. SEIU 32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan joins us to explain why.
An Acceptance Speech for Hillary
Does our country face any problem that is more important or far-reaching than America’s growing economic divide? I think we know in our bones that it doesn’t.
The Democrats After Bernie
The young activists who campaigned for Bernie Sanders are clearly the Democrats’ future. Do they have the power and the smarts to remake the Democratic Party?
Unionizing the Digital Newsroom
In unionizing, digital media workers have laid claim to a powerful lineage of newsroom organizing. But is there more they could learn from the militant newshounds of the past?
