A Green New Trade Policy
Neoliberal free trade agreements in the 90’s dealt a crushing blow to the working class. The Left should learn the lessons of that period and support targeted tariffs paired with other industrial policies.
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Building Small Things
It's no great surprise that kids love LEGOs. But why do an increasing number of adults love them too?
The History of Gay Conservatism
LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.
Frozen Freedom
Artificial Reproductive Technologies like egg freezing are on the rise. For the professional-managerial class women who can afford them, they provide an uneasy freedom that stimulates ambivalence about motherhood, paralysis about mating, and compulsion around costly procedures.
Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal, prevents us from confronting the neoliberal center, and demonizes a large segment of the population that we’d like to win over. There are better analogies out there, and ones that are closer to home.
Working Mother
The radical pamphleteer Susannah Wright does not fit neatly into the contemporary feminist imaginary. She is a woman these feminists would like to forget: a woman who understood her class allegiances and fought for the universalism of an objective, shared reality.
The Guardian That Never Sleeps
For almost ninety years mass anxieties about kidnapping and child abuse have driven the development of surveillance technologies focused on seeing and hearing children. How might these technologies impact the relationships between mothers and children?
