Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. Fred Block ▪ Fall 2024 CIO Political ...

Our Fall 2024 issue features an article by Fred Block on “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.” Below are two responses to the article, along with a reply from Block. Jobs Are a Source of Meaning Fred ...

The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that ...

J.W. Mason ▪ Fall 2024 Joe Biden at an Intel manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona that received funding from the CHIPS Act (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) In the first two years after Biden ...

At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not ...

Bidenomics sought to solve big problems in a context of narrow congressional majorities. Josh Bivens ▪ Fall 2024 Workers repave a section of 24th Avenue in San Francisco in 2021. (Justin ...

While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies. Nina Eichacker ▪ ...

Henry Holt and Co., 2023, 400 pp. Amid the pandemic lockdowns and mass protests of 2020, political figures on both the right and left invoked the American suburban ideal. On the campaign trail, Donald ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 720 pp. More than perhaps any other poet in New York in the 1930s and ’40s, Delmore Schwartz defined the direction of American letters. “Cosmopolitan, radical, at home ...

Writer and director Elaine McMillion Sheldon begins her latest documentary, King Coal, with a funeral rite. A multigenerational, multiracial procession of people in black clothing walks slowly up a ...