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3 weeks ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Duncan Hosie |Joseph A. McCartin |Michael Walzer |Bill Fletcher Jr
The Degradation of Big Law
By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.
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1 month ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Daniel Luban |Pablo Stefanoni |Joseph A. McCartin |Bill Fletcher Jr.
Fissures in Trumpworld?
There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of their basic goal: to break the twentieth-century state.
▪ March 13, 2025
The onslaught of the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second term was predictable, if no less unsettling for that.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
portside.org | Joseph A. McCartin
Meeting Labor’s Moment Published August 14, 2024 The HammerPower, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of LaborHamilton NolanHachette BooksISBN-13: 9780306830921RECENTLY WE HAVE witnessed a union upsurge. Starbucks baristas, Trader Joe’s clerks, Wells Fargo bank tellers, Google programmers, and many other groups have been fighting to form unions. Meanwhile, already-unionized workers have been engaging in strikes at a level we haven’t seen in decades.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Joseph A. McCartin
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Joseph A. McCartin |Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East
In his latest book, Hell to Pay, the prolific public intellectual Michael Lind offers a compelling analysis of an urgent problem: too many American workers earn too little and lack the bargaining power to demand more.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
portside.org | Joseph A. McCartin
The US Is Facing a Growing Air Safety Crisis. We Have Ronald Reagan To Thank for It. Published September 8, 2023 The US’s air traffic control workforce is overstretched, which has led to a big rise in airplane “near misses.” The crisis has roots in Ronald Reagan’s crushing of the 1981 PATCO strike and in the neoliberal attack on public services he helped spearhead.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Joseph A. McCartin
On March 15, 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) held a “safety summit” in McLean, Virginia, gathering more than two hundred “safety leaders” from across American aviation to discuss “ways to enhance flight safety.” What prompted the unusual summit was, by the FAA’s own admission, a “string of recent safety incidents, several of which involved airplanes coming too close together during takeoff or landing.” As the New York Times recently reported, such events have continued since...
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Andrew Elrod |Julia Ott |Leo Casey |Joseph A. McCartin
A New Class Consciousness For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient. ▪ Fall 2023 The Biden era has, in some respects, been a boon for unions. They have a friendly voice in the White House.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
democracyjournal.org | Lauren Jacobs |Stephen Lerner |Joseph A. McCartin
We’re pleased to join the debate between “deliverists” David Dayen and Matt Stoller and their critics, Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury. This debate pushes us all to think more clearly about democracy’s crisis and what must be done if we are to build the kind of democratic future we need.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Joseph A. McCartin
Everywhere you look this spring, you’ll find evidence that campuses are becoming sites of labor organizing and struggle.
