Politics is hard. Assembling coalitions, building strategies, overcoming ruthless oppositionāitās a lot. For the Democrats, the political moment is defined by a…
Everyoneāyou, me, politicians, Wall Street, tech people, philosophersāis a little bit scared and dazzled by AI. This is natural. Nobody quite knows…
Political moderates are those who believe that wisdom begins with the rejection of perfection. It would be nice if the world were…
I just got back from Labor Notes. Itās the biggest conference of the grassroots, activist wing of the labor movement. Thousands of…
An interview with Ann Larson about “Cleanup on Aisle Five” I have always found grocery stores fascinatingāboth as endpoints of a staggering…
On a brilliant, sunny Wednesday afternoon, a group of women in purple t-shirts huddled along the sidewalk of Willoughby Street in Bed-Stuy,…
Today, the Florida legislature is meeting in a special session to consider oafish brute governor Ron Desantisās proposal to slash the stateās…
May Day is for the workers. In some beautiful future, every worker will get May Day off. One day. But not yet.…
Yesterday, the national co-chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America published a piece in Jacobin headlined, āWe Need a Left-Labor Presidential Candidate.ā…
On Sunday there was a big union rally in Manhattan. Zohran Mamdani spoke, and Bernie Sanders spoke, and they were both very…
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