Subject: National Politics
Despite Trump’s ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’ Bluster, the Rust Belt Is Still Reeling from Plant Closures, The Progressive, October 7, 2020.
Bad Boss Trump, the Great Organizer, The Progressive, August 14, 2019.
The Politics of Petulance, from Donald Trump to Boris Johnson, The Progressive, August 1, 2019.
The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar, The Progressive, July 19, 2019.
The People Power Behind Sanders’ Debt Cancellation Plan, Washington Post, June 26, 2019.
The Road Not Taken, The New Republic, June 24, 2019.
Sara Nelson is Not Afraid to Strike Back, The Nation, May 10, 2019.
Nationalize Amazon, The Outline, November 15, 2018.
Inside the Hard Road to Transform the Teacher’s Movement into Real Power, Medium, October 19, 2018.
Family Values, The New Republic, May 30, 2018.
A Party Within the Democratic Party, The New Republic, March 14, 2018.
How the Media Is Abetting the GOP’s War on “Welfare”, The New Republic, January 31, 2018.
Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?, New Labor Forum, January 2018.
Trump’s Sham Populism, The New Republic, December 5, 2017.
Death to 2017, Damn Joan, November 14, 2017.
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Local Elections for the Left, The New Republic, October 13, 2017.
Socialized Medicine Won the Healthcare Debate, The New Republic, September 29, 2017.
Zombie Neoliberalism, Dissent, Fall 2017.
Beyond their caricature of the working class, Socialist Worker, July 19, 2017.
Transcript of talk given at Socialism 2017 conference.
Home care workers have our lives in their hands. They’re paid only $10 an hour, The Guardian, July 13, 2017.
The Unexpected Afterlife of American Communism, New York Times, June 6, 2017.
After the Apocalypse: Trying to Describe Reality in Unreal Times, FAIR, February 1, 2017.
The Resistance Begins, New York Times, January 20, 2017.
‘The swamp is Goldman Sachs’: how the bank is rewarded for putting profits over people, The Guardian, January 18, 2017.
Why Anti-Trump Protests Matter, Rolling Stone, November 15, 2016.
The Democrats’ Deadly Error, New York Times, November 9, 2016.
Zephyr Teachout Is Battling Big Money and Cynicism in One of This Year’s Tightest Congressional Races, The Nation, October 25, 2016.
Beyond Bernie: What’s next for the left?, Socialist Worker, August 30, 2016.
with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Bhaskar Sunkara, Jen Roesch, Howie Hawkins, Amy Muldoon
Trickle-Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races, Moyers & Company, August 22, 2016.
The Sanders campaign is over. The political revolution is not., Washington Post, August 22, 2016.
‘You’re Fired!’ The Abuses of ‘Skilled’ Worker Visa Programs, The Progressive, February 22, 2016.
A Tour of the American Left, Interview with Daniel Oppenheimer, Dissent, February 9, 2016.
Tuesday Night Football: Post-Gaming the Democratic Primary, Jacobin, October 14, 2015.
With Bhaskar Sunkara, Elizabeth Bruenig, Nicole Aschoff, Jesse A. Myerson and Paul Heideman
Politicians are not our friends, Dame Magazine, July 24, 2015.
Can Kshama Sawant Build an Actual Socialist City in America?, The Nation, June 17, 2015.
The sick leave plan that Democrats needed in November, The Week, January 16, 2015.
Narrowing Our Options, FAIR, November 1, 2014.
Maine governor slammed over vetoes of expanded Medicaid program, Al Jazeera America, October 30, 2014.
It’s time to raise the minimum wage. If Congress would rather suck up to the Koch brothers, we’ll raise it anyway, The Guardian, September 2, 2014.
Whose Recovery Is It, Anyway?, FAIR, May 2014.
The Third Party That’s Winning, In These Times, March 3, 2014.
Single Payer Rises Again, In These Times, February 3, 2014.
A Booster Shot for Social Security, In These Times, November 6, 2013.
The New Populists, In These Times, October 21, 2013.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s five-point economic plan, In These Times, October 7, 2013.
Sadism as Politics: On Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Anti-Abortion Politics, Power and Kicking the Poor, Truthout, July 1, 2013.
Chained CPI: A direct attack on middle class and working people, Al Jazeera English, March 19, 2013.
A Department that Fights for Labor, The Indypendent, January 21, 2013.
How Organizing for Change is Very Different From Winning Elections, AlterNet, November 26, 2012.
Wall Street’s Favorite Candidate Slings Mud In Effort To Beat Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet, October 15, 2012.
Report: While American Families Lost a Ton of Wealth in the Crash, Members of Congress Did Just Fine, AlterNet, October 9, 2012.
Why Mitt Romney Is Losing Ohio, AlterNet, September 27, 2012.
Top Progressive Senator Shares What It’s Like to Fight Against $15 Million Deluge in Right-Wing Election Money, AlterNet, September 10, 2012.
Wisconsin’s Recall Drama Down to Nail-Biting Finish, AlterNet, June 3, 2012.
Wisconsin’s Recall Drama Down to Nail-Biting Finish, AlterNet, June 3, 2012.
Corporate Cash Streams Into Ohio to Unseat Senator Sherrod Brown, AlterNet, April 6, 2012.
5 Right-Wing Governors Gutting Schools to Fund Prisons, Tax Breaks for the Rich, and a Bible Theme Park, AlterNet, February 9, 2012.
How Rick Santorum Stokes Race and Class Anxieties to Win Unlikely Primary Victories, AlterNet, February 8, 2012.
Dennis Kucinich vs. Marcy Kaptur: How GOP Redistricting Will Force Out a Top Progressive Congressmember, AlterNet, February 7, 2012.
10 Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who Represent Some of the Most Financially Screwed Districts, AlterNet, December 27, 2011.
GOP Again Holds Working America Hostage to Its Perverse Ideological Priorities, AlterNet, December 15, 2011.
Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?, Religion Dispatches, July 6, 2011.
The 10 Scariest GOP Governors: Bringing a Radical Right-Wing Agenda To a State Near You, AlterNet, July 6, 2011.
Meet the HR3 Ten: Ten Democrats Opposed to Choice (and everything else their party stands for), Rewire, February/March 2011.
Nikki Haley: A New Face for Old Politics in South Carolina, The Nation, November 1, 2010.
BP Kills Culture Along with Gulf Food, Truthout, July 12, 2010.
A New Southern Strategy, The American Prospect, March 15, 2010.
The Myth of the American Middle Class, Global Comment, July 29, 2009.
The $700 Billion Bailout: What About Ordinary Americans?, Global Comment, September 25, 2008.
Levees and lives: New Orleans four years after Hurricane Katrina, Global Comment, August 29, 2009.