Being a Soil Soldier
The Civilian Conservation Corps did more than prime the economy from the bottom up and restore the land. It also gave many young men meaningful work for the first time in their lives.
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Brick Red
While Democrats and Republicans have cynically joined forces for a meager “build back better,” the Left mostly fantasizes about tearing it all down.
A. Philip Randolph on Labor Day and Racial Justice
A. Philip Randolph was one of the most prominent civil rights and labor leaders of the twentieth century. Here his Labor Day address at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in 1967 is reprinted in full.
In Defense of Industrial Agriculture
A serious socialist agricultural policy would reject the pastoral utopian dreams of organic agriculture, while demanding that industrial agriculture, like all industry, be placed under democratic ownership.
Are You My Customer?
Recent service industry hero tales like The Menu, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Bear are not crafted for the people whose work they romanticize, but for their bosses, managers and customers. What message are these stories meant to deliver?
Cash Dreaming
Welfare for Markets examines the various political, economic, social, and ideological transformations that allowed basic income to be dressed up as a smart idea. Today, rather than succumb to the dominance of money, we should resume an older conversation about the collective determination of needs.
What’s In Our First Print Issue
The opening editorial of our first print issue, “Building Big Things.”
