How to protect your community– and your right to protest
By Miranda Spivack, author of Backroom Deals in our Backyards Federal government agents’ routine malfeasance is occurring too often to count in states and communities across the country. As the ...
We need an elected school board in New York City. Here’s why.
By Dave Backer, author of As Public as Possible Organizers in New York City have been calling for an elected school board, and Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected Mayor, announced his ...
A Girl in Her Heart
By Sim Butler, author of And the Dragons Do Come When my almost seven-year-old child started articulating her transgender identity, she didn’t have the words to describe what she was ...
Breaking Unions, Breaking Laws
By Dave Kamper, author of Who's Got the Power? In Milwaukee, in 1886, just a day after the infamous Haymarket Bombing in Chicago, a group of workers and their families, ...
Learning from Our Organizing Past
By Erik Loomis, author of Organizing America Anyone reading this site knows how messed up America is today. Most of us also know something about our organizing past. We know that ...
Ferguson and the Legacy of Black August
By Stefan M. Bradley, author of If We Don't Get It At this time of intense state repression and government overreach, we have much to learn from the young leaders ...
Feeding the World vs. Feeding People
By Stephanie Anderson “Feed the world.” I grew up hearing this phrase, usually in the context of agriculture. “Farmers and ranchers feed the world,” I heard in newspapers, TV, and ...
Looking for federal data? Go local.
Looking for federal data? Go local. A Sunshine Week reminder that local governments have a lot of federal data, too THIS BLOG WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE CONTRARIAN ON MAR ...
Don’t Blame DEI for the American Airlines Crash
Don’t Blame DEI for the American Airlines Crash By Thomas O. McGarity With an astonishing lack of grace, President Donald Trump has suggested that the recent collision of a military ...
Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 By Rita Goldberg My mother, Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg, grew up mostly in Amsterdam when her family moved there from Berlin in 1929. She ...
What Happens in Lithium Valley
What Happens in Lithium Valley . . . By Manuel Pastor* In a dusty corner of southeastern California, the contradictions and tensions of our move from a fossil fuel past ...
70 Years On: How We’ve Thought About the Unions
By Nelson Lichtenstein, co-author of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today Labor’s Partisans is a retrospective on the evolution of the labor movement, as it ...
When Private Companies Profit from Public Dollars
By Anne Kim, author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Off America's Poor Jackson Hewitt is one of America’s largest tax preparation chains, with nearly six thousand outlets nationwide ...
A Post-Midterm Analysis from New Press Author William Kleinknecht
For the New Press blog, veteran journalist William Kleinknecht offers important takeaways from the midterm elections, reflecting on what progressives can learn from gains and losses alike. Kleinknecht’s upcoming book ...
The Lifecycle of Your $25 Fast Fashion Impulse Buy
Alyssa Hardy’s provocative, compelling, deeply researched debut Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins investigates the intersecting labor exploitation and environmental devastation of the fashion industry. The fashion ...
Journeys in a Racial State
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, author Deepa Iyer shares her reflections and a call to action. My book We Too Sing America, originally published in 2015, ...
