Politics

The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue

The PRO Act will not pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.

Hamilton Nolan

How Austerity Politics End

By passing the American Rescue Plan, President Biden and Democrats in Congress are signaling they may finally be ready to move on from the age of market fundamentalism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Democrats Can't Afford to Dilute Their $15 Minimum Wage Proposal

The wage increase in the Covid relief bill also applies to tipped workers and others making a subminimum wage. Democrats should fight tooth and nail to make it law.

s.e. smith

Republicans Are Using the Capitol Riot as a Trojan Horse to Target the Left

Since January 6, GOP lawmakers across the country have introduced a slew of anti-protest bills.

Branko Marcetic

Privatization Would Doom Biden's Infrastructure Plan

To meet his goals on equity, jobs and climate, President Biden should push a massive, publicly-funded infrastructure plan.

Jeremy Mohler

Rev. William Barber: The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice

Democrats need to stop playing games and use their majorities to pass a $15 minimum wage right now—we can’t wait any longer.

Rev. William Barber

Massive Inequality Is a Feature of Capitalism, Not a Bug

The Biden administration may usher in a new period of reform, but history shows that it's unlikely to last if our economic system remains intact.

Richard D. Wolff

Democrats Need to Radically Expand American Democracy—And Fast

If Democrats want to enact their agenda and retain power, they should move quickly to bolster voting rights and reform undemocratic structures in the U.S. political system.

Scott Remer

The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Industrial workers know their unions can't stop plant closures.

Staughton Lynd

A Recipe for Making Change in Biden's Washington

To make it happen, progressives must learn to co-govern and build more power.

Robert Kraig

A Presidential Inauguration Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun

Presidents change, but the soldiers stay the same.

Hamilton Nolan

We Don't Need to Do This To Ourselves

Turning the nation's capital into an armed camp for Biden's inauguration to prove we don't live in fear.

Hamilton Nolan

Armies of the Right

We all know who the real thieves of the election are.

Joel Bleifuss

Let's Not Become a Bunch of Panicky Reactionaries

The lesson of the Capitol riots is to change the power structure, not to embrace it

Hamilton Nolan

$2,000 Checks Now—And Make Them Monthly

The Democrats’ victory in Georgia was a vote for cash assistance. Prioritizing direct monthly payments isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics.

Sean Kline and Jim Pugh

We Should Cause Trouble, Not Make Nice With Biden

History suggests that it’s not making friends, but making the administration’s life difficult, that gets results for the Left.

Branko Marcetic

Congress Now Has More Socialists Than Ever Before in U.S. History

The high-water mark for socialists elected to national office is in step with a proud tradition in American politics.

Maurice Isserman

With Democrats in Full Control, It's Time to Pass the PRO Act

A conversation with leaders of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

Maximillian Alvarez