Rich Yeselson has a really powerful essay on what it was like to be on the front lines of the labor movement when John Sweeney won his upset victory to become AFL-CIO president and the world seemed the oyster of a revived labor movement. Although...
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A couple of years ago, I reviewed the book of documents that Sylvia Federici, the Italian woman who conceived of and fought for the Wages for Housework movement, put together..
We don't often think of Afro-Mexicans, but they very much exist, especially along both the Gulf and Pacific coasts. And they face significant discrimination within a quite racist Mexico. That.
Check out my latest interview with authors of recent books. I spoke with Christy Thornton of Johns Hopkins University, author of the brand new book Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. She basically asks what happens if we look at...
This is the grave of Benjamin Franklin. I don't think it's really necessary to write an entire biography of Franklin here. His life is so well-known, more so than perhaps.
In 1956, workers at a plant in Princeton, Indiana went on strike. They were organized with the International Association of Machinists. In response, the National Right to Work Committee created.
Harold Pollack makes a very important policy point in this Democracy Journal piece. The Biden Administration and Congress seek immediate measures to improve peoples’ lives. Our dysfunctional politics being what they are, immediate help is best provided through simple things that can be passed by...
This is the grave of Ernest May, as well as various other professors associated with Harvard. Born in 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas, May went to UCLA for college, graduating.
Under Trump, ICE became a catch all agency for intimidation of people of color and the poor. A senior political appointee from the Trump administration still employed at a federal.
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - FEBRUARY 17: The former Trump Plaza hotel and casino is imploded on February 17, 2021 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After 30 years of operation the Trump Plaza was imploded after closing its doors in 2014. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty...
This is the grave of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Born into the Jewish elite of New York in 1891, Morgenthau grew up well-connected. His father was a major financier and ambassador.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs has a new book out called Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. There's an excerpt out in the Boston Review and I have to say it.