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.

Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...

Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...

Studies have failed to show a positive effect of unemployment on incarceration despite reasons to expect such a relationship. We note that prior estimates have been muddied by the absence of substate...

Abstract. Racial inequality in sentencing has decreased substantially over the last decade. In 2009, the average sentencing difference between black and wh

Demography Abstract: Mass incarceration fundamentally altered the life course for a generation of American men, but sustained declines in imprisonment in recent years raise questions about how incarce...

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...

The Academic as Revolutionary

On Victor Petrov’s ‘Balkan Cyberia’.

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

(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 ...

Just as the herbal liqueur is becoming more popular, the French order that has produced it for more than two centuries is pulling back to focus on faith.

The effects of welfare cuts in Denmark.