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Manufacturing Isnât Coming Back. Letâs Improve These Jobs Instead.
Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions.
By Gabriel Winant
Dr. Winant is the author of âThe Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.â
March 17, 2021
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In Congress and the White House, policymakers are developing a bill that is expected to pour trillions into updating American transit, energy and utility systems. Repairs are certainly necessary, and itâs impossible to overstate the urgency of such a program in terms of the transition to a more sustainable economy.
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
by David Paul Kuhn
Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
Liveright, 2020, 288 pp.
When a young Chuck Schumer arrived at Harvard in 1967 as a freshman, he joined the great political stirring of those yearsâwho could resist it? But Abbie Hoffman he was not. âI was faced with what Alexander Hamilton called
mobocracy,â Schumer recalled in his coauthored 2007 book
Positively American. He became a College Democrat, canvassed for Eugene McCarthy, and eschewed the radicals. Campus members of the New Leftâs Progressive Labor faction horrified him, and he felt âsickenedâ seeing protesters scream at cops. âThe police werenât pigs. They were the people Iâd grown up with. They were my neighbors. My friends. They were the Baileys [imaginary Irish-American Long Islanders with whom Schu