Eric Adams is now the first sitting New York mayor to face criminal charges. Yet his worst actions — cutting budgets for schools, libraries, childcare, and anything else he could in his single-minded quest for more austerity — have been perfectly legal.
This essay original appeared in MRZine. It is republished here by its author. Steve's "Beyond the Fields" appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Jacobin.
Life after emergency.
Fewer workers are in unions, but density in itself doesn't always translate into power.
The New York State Legislature is readying to pass a bill that would make it illegal for any college or university in the state to use public monies to fund faculty membership in — or travel to — academic organizations that boycott the institutions of another country.
Bill de Blasio’s recent housing deals give some insight into what the Left is up against in New York, even with a progressive mayor.
New construction isn’t the only solution to New York’s affordable housing crisis, but the Left is wrong to dismiss it outright.
Bernie Sanders has a long record of supporting pro-worker policies. Organized labor should back his presidential run.
The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked blowback from conservatives and milquetoast reforms from liberals.
The COP21 agreement's shortcomings show that the climate justice movement needs to start thinking about state power.
Throughout the 1990s, Bill Clinton and other Democratic Leadership Council figures launched a campaign to take their Third Way ideology global.
Hillary Clinton's triangulation may win in November, but it's a politics that has little future.
Many white workers aren't voting for Democrats this November. And we can't just blame racism.
The recent UN vote on Israeli settlements is belated and toothless, but it gives a boost to anti-occupation activists.
Meet the latest self-interested pundit urging Democrats not to move left.
Under New York City’s byzantine property tax system, billionaires pay lower rates than bus drivers.
Elizabeth Warren wants to rein in capitalism's excesses. But when those excesses are baked into the system, we can't rein them in — we have to scrap the whole thing.
The Left has raised questions about how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will conduct herself in office. By attending a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office and coming out strong against Amazon in New York City, she’s off to a strong start.
Today should be a day of celebration. Amazon is leaving New York, and we just dealt a blow to urban neoliberalism.