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What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

intan O’Toole The New Yorker
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

Setting the Pace in Auto: Thinking Bigger Than Tariffs

Andrew Elrod Labor Notes
For the 12 million workers in U.S. manufacturing, the question is whether it is possible, under this administration and in this moment of twenty-first-century capitalism, to create a pro-worker, pro-union trade policy.