Jacobin • 29th July 2021

Simone Biles Doesn’t Owe Fans Anything

At the end of the day, Simone Biles is a worker. And she was right to put her mental health first, just as any worker should be able to stay home sick instead of pouring their life force into serving someone else.

Jewish Currents • 26th April 2021

Jewish Currents: What Happened to IfNotNow?

The close of the Trump era finds the millennial anti-occupation group at a crossroads.

The American Prospect • 1st May 2020

American Prospect: When Journalists Become Workers

Five years ago, unions barely existed in digital media. Today, they may save the industry from the worst of the COVID-19 depression—and provide a model to other working professionals.

Washington Post • 5th February 2020

Can DNA tests tell us who we are? Only if we’re racists.

Genetic heritage without cultural and social context is meaningless. And yet, despite years of warnings from scientists about the shortcomings of this “genetic astrology,” sales of genealogical DNA tests continue to reach new highs.

Jacobin • 8th January 2020

To Defeat Antisemitism, We Must Defeat Capitalism

Antisemitism endures because capitalist oppression needs a scapegoat. Only by democratizing the economy can the ancient hate finally be extinguished.

The American Prospect • 16th December 2019

First-Past-the-Post Won the British Election. Here’s How Progressives Can Defeat It.

U.S. and U.K. electoral systems allow evenly spread minorities to beat majorities concentrated geographically. But there are options to counteract that.

Washington Post • 28th October 2019

Critics of ‘Cancel Culture’ Really Just Hate Democracy

While our society rightly values protest and free expression, the critics of “cancel culture” turn this virtue into a vice, contemptuously dismissing those who collectively express their disapproval.

The Nation • 14th October 2019

WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency • 11th October 2019

Bernie Sanders Is 76, but He Represents the Future of American Jewry

As much as Bernie Sanders seems alien to many of the shul-going, institutionally affiliated older Jewish Americans, he is deeply representative of the silent majority for whom social justice movements take the place of synagogue and Israel is more often a cause for kvetching than kvelling.

Jacobin • 1st October 2019

It’s Morning in Joker’s America

Viewing Todd Phillips’s new film through the lens of the present misses the larger picture. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was the original Joker.

The Intercept • 8th September 2019

The Intercept: Isiah James Wants to Take Brooklyn’s Fight for Affordable Housing to Congress

To pull off an upset in the style of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brooklyn's Isiah James is banking on building a grassroots campaign with what could be the most ambitious plan in Congress’s history to guarantee quality, affordable housing for all Americans.

Jacobin • 27th August 2019

American Jews, Don’t Go on Birthright

Birthright Israel pretends the occupation does not exist and manipulates Jewish heritage and identity into support for an apartheid state. I’ll never go on Birthright, and neither should you.

The Week • 19th August 2019

Why Democrats Shouldn't Be Afraid to Talk about Socialism

If Democrats want to win control of Washington in 2020, running on socialism may provide just the answer.

Washington Post • 16th August 2019

Washington Post: How the Right Wing Fell for Its Own Fables About the Working Class

A conservative publication fell for a hoax by a fake construction worker, but the real fiction is much more widespread.

The Independent • 15th August 2019

I'll Never Use the Term 'Moscow Mitch' – And You Shouldn't Either

Liberals would do well to remember how Ronald Reagan, the destroyer of progressive worlds and leader of America’s historic shift to the political right, took and held power: by appealing to Russophobia.

Jacobin • 8th August 2019

Exclusive—We Found Archie Carter

Quillette ran a hit piece on the DSA by Queens construction worker and "Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyite” Archie Carter. Surprise, surprise, it was a hoax. We talked to the real Archie Carter about why he embarrassed the conservative publication.

The American Prospect • 4th August 2019

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Is a Rumination on Fake News

“People, they need to believe. And nowadays, they’ll believe anything.”

Washington Post • 19th July 2019

Democracies Have Dehumanized Migrants Before

What a French migrant camp teaches us about Trump’s border camps.

Jacobin • 9th July 2019

Freezing Workers of the World, Unite!

Millions of you are suffering in overly air-conditioned workplaces right now. This isn't about remembering to bring an extra sweater to work — it's class war. Workers should be in control of office temperature, not bosses.

Institute for New Economic Thinking • 27th June 2019

How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy

With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world Aaron Freedman: In the past few years digital media workers have been on the frontlines of unionizing private workplaces. Why is that? Hamilton Nolan: I think that journalists are smart enough to understand the basic fact that unionizing is good for them. Once people in our industry saw unionization happening, the unavoidable logic of the idea reall