Writers Guild of America East is the union behind recent public organizing campaigns at two digital media outlets—Gawker Media and Salon.com. We talked to their director of organizing, Justin Molito.
The museum world’s fad for “urban labs” shows the limits of design thinking.
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
An excerpt from Joshua Cohen’s new novel Book of Numbers.
An interview with Eric Foner on the underground railroad in New York, how history helps us to understand change, and why the left should talk more about freedom.
After decades of defeat, organized labor has become the domain of reluctant radicals.
Audio from our live discussion on labor and the history of capitalism, with Betsy Beasley and David Stein.
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.
What are the visions and complaints, accomplishments and limits of the largest and most important movements on the left today?
Americans revere the Declaration of Independence, but most of us don’t read it. Timothy Shenk spoke with Danielle Allen about the document’s relevance for how we understand liberty and equality in the United States today.
“I lined my pockets swindling millionaires with a tap of the gavel…”
The Story of My Teeth begins.
What if you could run a workplace organizing campaign through your smartphone? We speak with Mark Zuckerman, president of The Century Foundation, about how unions can use digital platforms to empower workers. Plus: the latest on Uber, Verizon, the TPP, and an ice-cream labor revolt.
South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
A dialogue between two veteran immigrant rights advocates who have watched the movement grow, diversify, and sometimes contradict itself over the past three decades.
Even as America defined itself as a “nation of immigrants,” it sought a more perfect union by engineering the masses at its gateway.
