A Journal of Ideas

Labor

Playing Chicken with Workers’ Lives

The powerless—and courageous—immigrants fighting for dignity inside the country’s slaughterhouses.

By Tom Philpott

Winter 2025, No. 75 – 15 MIN READ

Keep Empowering Workers!

By Heidi Shierholz

Spring 2024, No. 72 – 12 MIN READ

Policy Alone Doesn't Cut It

If spending trillions of dollars to improve people’s lives isn’t a fair test of “deliverism,” then what is? A response to Matt Stoller and David Dayen.

By Deepak Bhargava Shahrzad Shams Harry Hanbury

August 23, 2023, 10:30 am – 4 MIN READ

Delivering the (Common) Goods

Democracy is about much more than casting a vote. A response to Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury.

By Lauren Jacobs Stephen Lerner Joseph A. McCartin

July 24, 2023, 2:00 pm – 10 MIN READ

Giving Communities the Power

By Lauren Jacobs

Summer 2023, No. 69 – 12 MIN READ