Articles by Jeffrey Burman

“On Monday, the platform committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted 125-36 not to include Medicare for All in the party’s platform,” writes Eric Blanc in Jacobin. “Faced with a pandemic that has revealed the catastrophic

One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. They say strikes should be considered only as a “last resort”

New research points to an overlooked reason Congress is often seen as out of touch with the needs of the non-wealthy: the decline of union membership. Researchers Michael Becher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and

Thousands of people gathered at the Justice Center on Saturday night, but if you look out into the crowd, you’ll see that many people are wearing similar shirts as part of an organized effort. Teachers are wearing red, health care workers were wearing

“Teachers,” writes Eric Blanc in Jacobin, “want to return to their classrooms. But any serious assessment of the relative costs of keeping schools closed must also honestly grapple with the health risks posed by opening them

Over the past weekend, the civil rights community suffered the loss of two giants in the movement—the Reverend C.T. Vivian (95) and Representative John Lewis (80). As the nation grapples with protests and demands for racial equality