The Fear of Too Much JusticeRace, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal CourtsThe New Press, 2023 By Stephen B. Bright and James KwakWith a foreword by Bryan Stevenson In The Fear of Too Much Justice, public defender Stephen B. Bright and scholar James Kwak provide a readable, far-reaching, and expertly constructed overview…

There was not much excitement in the June  unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 3.6%. For 15 months the rate has stayed in a range of 3.4 to 3.7%. From a conventional point of view, that is full employment, but it is…

Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future By Maja Göpel (trans. David Shaw) Scribe US, 2023 Climate anxiety is real. As news outlets deliver more images of burning forests, unbreathable air, and sinking coastlines, a deep sense of hopelessness only grows. Addressing climate change itself is just as anxiety-inducing, and debates ensue as to…

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Liveright, 2023) By Blair LM Kelley Perhaps more than in any other period in living memory, we are witness to a wide-scale assault on the humanities. Funding has been slashed; admissions and enrollments are down; positions are being eliminated; and, most alarming of all, Republican-led state…

80 democratic socialist elected officials and their aides from across the country came together.

This Pride month, the LGBTQ+ community celebrates our fierce love while facing organized assaults on our very existence.

One hundred years ago labor organizer A.J. Muste observed that the very structure of a union is inherently unstable and contradictory. I find many parallels in DSA.

Stagnant wage growth and suppressed working class power since the 1980s has coincided with a historic ebb in the use of the strike weapon to secure concessions.

It’s already a hot labor summer, and the heat is turning up as DSA chapters across the country make themselves Strike Ready.

“After emancipation there would come questions of labor, wage and political power. But now, first, must be demanded that ordinary human freedom and recognition of essential manhood which slavery blasphemously denied. This philosophy of freedom was a logical continuation of the freedom philosophy of the eighteenth century which insisted that Freedom was not an End…