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Tidbits-Aug. 27: Reader Comments: Trade War – With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega Post; 9 to 5; Resource – Election Defense Scenarios; What Is Democratic Socialism?;

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Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...

Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.

The $79 Trillion Heist

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past. Here are 7 reforms to create a broadly shared prosperity and an affordable future.

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

J.W. Mason Dissent Magazine
Mamdani’s agenda will face serious obstacles. A massive wave of new voters doesn’t just carry you into office. It shifts the landscape, it creates political capital that can be turned toward other ends; changes political calculations for others...
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