Is ‘Doing Your Best’ Ever Enough When You Are Working Class?
In 2016, I wrote about how Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake illustrated the impact of the draconian British welfare system on working-class people. Watching.
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Talking Class and Race at the Same Time
Most progressive policies have the potential of unifying people around class interests, but a convention in talking about these things often seems to.
- by Jack Metzgar
- June 17, 2019
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The Great Cowboy Strike: An interview with Mark Lause
Chad Pearson interviews Mark Lause on his new book, The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West, which.
- by Chad Pearson
- June 1, 2019
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Doris Day: Working-Class Hero
Doris Day was one of the hardest working entertainers of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as one of the highest paid female.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- May 26, 2019
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Class(room) Warfare
The actress Felicity Huffman—along with 13 other parents charged in the college admissions scandal—entered plea deals last week, putting pressure on actress Lori.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- April 23, 2019
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Jobs and Medicare for All
You can tell that Medicare for All is becoming a real possibility when it gets a rigorous cost-benefit analysis and when its advocates.
- by Jack Metzgar
- March 5, 2019
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Share the Wealth
There is a growing awareness that wealth inequality is directly affecting everyman. All politicians recite the pledge to help the middle class, republicans.
- by David Obringer
- February 21, 2019
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The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
The working class currently has remarkable visibility in US political culture. In defiance of a longstanding belief in America’s classlessness, even today’s sitting.
- by Robyn Muncy
- February 15, 2019
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The Ghosts of Bisbee
Bisbee ‘17 is a documentary about an Arizona town facing its ghosts. In June 1917, when copper miners organized by the Industrial Workers of.
- by Mary Romero
- February 3, 2019
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal.
- by Daniel Graff
- January 29, 2019