In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way. Eileen Boris ▪ April 16 ...

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico in 2018, he promised a government “for the good of all, with the poor coming first.” He pledged to break with neoliberalism and its ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, William P. Jones talks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the author of Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press). The idea of paying ...

The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...

When Chinese supply lines were disrupted in late February because of shutdowns attempting to stop the spread of coronavirus, businesses and financial institutions around the world started to have ...

117th Congress, 2nd Session, 814 pp. When we imagine what it means to live through a political crisis, most of us probably summon visions of extremity: assassinations and coups, depressions and ...

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Nick Serpe spoke to Gabriel Winant, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt ...

In their new book, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce argue that progressives need a strategy upgrade. As they explain, “We wrote this book ...

Court fines, fees, and restitution payments fund government operations—and hold millions of people in dire financial straits. Andrew Schwartz ▪ October 9, 2020 Sharon Madison gathers receipts ...