The Fictions of Finance
As the divide between finance and everyday life yawns ever wider, fiction has stepped into the gap.
Winter 2026
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Belabored Podcast #84: Domestic Workers Unite, with Premilla Nadasen
Premilla Nadasen joins us to talk about her new book, Household Workers Unite, on the forgotten history of black domestic workers organizing from the 1950s to the 1970s.
The Next Civil Rights Movement?
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
Booked: On Their Way to Freedom
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.
The Fall of the Confederate Flag
The fall of the Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina, has been over fifty years in the making. What does it mean for the state, for the South, and for the nation?
Belabored Podcast #81: Live, with Who Makes Cents?
Audio from our live discussion on labor and the history of capitalism, with Betsy Beasley and David Stein.
Where’s the Outrage?
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.
Booked #2: Wonder Woman and the History of Feminism
Tim Shenk talks with historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore about Wonder Woman and the lost history of feminism.
Fantasies of Federalism
Why did the nation-state model win out, when the alternatives were supposedly so compelling?
Booked #1: What’s Wrong With Community Development?
To kick off our new Q&A series, Booked, Tim Shenk talks to historian Daniel Immerwahr about “a left that can operate on all scales.”
Japan’s Island Problem
How U.S. policy, ancestral wounds, and international law have led to an era of ocean imperialism
Brute Ideology
Witchcraft and racecraft—unlike witches and race—are things that actually exist.
The Rise of Reagan’s America
In his latest book, Rick Perlstein tells lively stories at the expense of the political complexity.
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory.
Decline of the Strike 
A new edition of Jeremy Brecher’s classic Strike reminds readers of the sheer size, violence, and power of labor struggles now erased from American historical consciousness .
