The most salient quality of the future is that it hasnāt happened yet. It is a book whose pages are unwritten. Its…
Horse race coverage is the dominant mode of political coverage in America. It sucks. It treats politics like sports, parties like favored…
A quintessential quality of modern American life is the inescapable feeling that once-good things are subtly but surely being degraded. Things that…
No American city has been as central to this decadeās struggles for social justice as Minneapolis. George Floydās murder by Minneapolis police…
Everyone in America is not a policy expert. In fact, a tiny minority are. It is hardly worth arguing over this fact.…
Union density. Union density. Union density! What is the reason for our problems? Union density. What is the answer to our problems?…
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…
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