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Troy Jackson’s Politics Are Rooted in Maine Logger Struggles

Branko Marcetic Convergence
Maine Senate hopeful Troy Jackson’s history is a case study of something the Left often discusses but rarely sees: a working-class politician who emerged from workplace organizing struggles and used his power to advance pro-worker policies.

An Expansive Exploration of Summertime Detroit.

Cheryl A. Head Washington Independent Review of Books
This new collection of essays, poems, comics, memoir, and short stories focuses on Detroit and the Black experience of summer in the city.

Hachette Book Group Employees Vote To Unionize

Alexandra Alter The New York Times
Hundreds of staff members at Hachette Book Group voted to unionize forming the largest union in American trade book publishing at one of the biggest publishers in the United States.

The Left Needs Its Own Foreign Policy

Tim Hirschel-Burns Convergence
Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run.

Who Should Own the Robots?

Paolo Natali The New Republic
AI’s displacement of workers will make it even harder to organize labor—and all the more necessary.