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How the Republican Party Slipped Its Leash
The Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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December 10, 2025
How Social Reactionaries Exploit Economic Nostalgia
Conservatives think we need traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline; But it’s the economic equality created by strong unions that Americans miss.
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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May 20, 2025
The Myth of the Socially Conscious Corporation
The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.
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Meagan Day
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The New Republic
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January 27, 2023
The Rise of the UniverCity
Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
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Davarian L. Baldwin
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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September 2, 2021
The Romance of American Clintonism
The politically complacent ’90s produced a surprisingly large number of mainstream American rom-coms about fighting the Man.
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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October 21, 2020
“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”
From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.
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Mike Davis
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Jon Wiener
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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May 29, 2020
Remembering the First Clash Between UAW and GM
The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.
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Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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October 1, 2019
Welcome to Operation Dixie, the Most Ambitious Unionization Attempt in the U.S.
Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail.
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Meagan Day
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Medium
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May 8, 2018
How Poor, Mostly Jewish Immigrants Organized 20,000 and Fought for Workers Rights
These women came ready to fight.
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Meagan Day
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Timeline
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March 9, 2018
The Shark and the Hound
America’s long history of predatory lending.
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Meagan Day
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The Baffler
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December 1, 2017
The Story of the First Copycat Mass Shooter
Robert Benjamin Smith inaugurated murder for the media age.
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Meagan Day
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Timeline
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November 7, 2016