Today, NLRB General Counsel Crystal S. Carey issued GC Memorandum 26-03.   The memorandum instructs the Regional Offices to focus their efforts on investigating priority cases and protecting the right of free association. “As we move forward with this new guidance, my office is committed to providing clear and actionable direction for Regional offices to judiciously securing the rights of all American workers,” said General Counsel Carey.

As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

The discussion on incarceration and class is crucial. Discover how class disparities influence the criminal justice landscape today.

If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

A new book, Polarized by Degrees, argues that college-educated voters have come to dominate the Democratic Party and cultural institutions while Americans without a college degree feel increasingly al...

On Victor Petrov’s ‘Balkan Cyberia’.

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(December 2024) - We survey archaeological evidence suggesting that among hunter-gatherers and farmers in Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) elevated levels of wealth inequality occ...

On the faulty intellectual origins of shareholder primacy—and how policy can win back what’s been lost. In an era of shareholder primacy, share price is king. Businesses operate with short-term goals ...

The effects of welfare cuts in Denmark.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

The theories of the 20th-century philosopher John Rawls can inspire a new way for Democrats to find relevance.

Longtime Democratic moderates who attacked big business and monopolies outpaced Harris in swing districts.

Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.

The Democrats’ failure to reconnect with American workers cost them the election, leaving the party adrift in a coalition dominated by elites and urban professionals