Public Scholarship
The boxes below link to my writing for Jacobin and Dissent respectively. A full list of public writings is provided below.
Federalism and Class Struggle, Catalyst (Summer 2023)
Who Segregated America? Dissent (August 2022)
The Pandemic Risk Shift, Dissent (Spring 2021), 121-130.
Federalism is Killing Us, Dissent (March 2021)
Closing Doors: Race and Opportunity in St. Louis Schools, Dissent (January 2021)
The Pre-Emption Racket, Dissent (August 2020)
Who Gets Protected? Dissent (July 2020)
The Coronavirus Wouldn’t Be Decimating Meatpacking Plants If Company Bosses Hadn’t Busted the Unions, Jacobin (May 18, 2020)
(with Walter Johnson, Jason Purnell, and Jamal Rogers), COVID-19 and the Color Line, Boston Review (May 1, 2020); reprinted at Ideas and Futures (June 2020); reprinted in The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter (Boston Review and Verso Books, 2020)
Understanding the Employment Crisis, Dissent (April 30, 2020)
We Need Massive Aid to the States — Not a Round of Bankruptcies, Jacobin (April 26, 2020)
(with Sarah K. Bruch), COVID-19 Is Exposing the United States’ Ragged, Shameful Safety Net, Jacobin (April 21, 2020)
Corona: The Inequality Virus, Jacobin (March 2020)
Inequality in the Age of Trump Dissent (January 2020
Citizen Brown, Dissent (August 2019)
The New Deal State and Segregation, Jacobin (August 2019)
The Legacy of Taft-Hartley, Jacobin (December 2017)
A Brief History of Health Reform, Jacobin (July 2017)
Democracy’s Critics, Jacobin (June 2017)
(with Clarissa Hayward) “The Murder of Michael Brown,“ Jacobin (August 2016)
Ferguson, One Year Later, Georgetown Public Policy Review (September 2015)
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and US Inequality, Dissent (December 2014)
Segregation’s Long Shadow, Dissent (October 2014)
Beyond Our Inequality: Policy Blueprints for the Twenty-First Century, Dissent (May 2014)
Choosing Unemployment: Macroeconomic Policy and American Inequality, Dissent (May 2014)
Fatter Cats: Executive Pay and American Inequality, Dissent (May 2014)
Wolves of Wall Street: Financialization and American Inequality, Dissent (April 2014); reprinted in Truthout (April 23, 2014)
The Computer Did It? Technology and Inequality, Dissent (Spring 2014).
Who Pays: Taxes and American Inequality, Dissent (April 2014)
A Tattered Safety Net: Social Policy and American Inequality, Dissent (April 2014)
The Perils of Private Welfare: Job-Based Benefits and American Inequality, Dissent (March 2014)
Bare Minimum: Labor Standards and American Inequality, Dissent (March 2014)
The Union Difference: Labor and American Inequality, Dissent (March 2014)
Our Inequality: An Introduction, Dissent (March 2014)
The Irony and Limits of the Affordable Care Act, Dissent (October 2013)
Revenue Blues: The Case for Higher Taxes, Dissent (June 2013)
The Lost City of Solidarity, Dissent (April 2013)
(with Donald Cohen), Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn? Dissent (August 30, 2012); also published in Huffington Post and Truthout
(with John Schmitt), What’s So Bold about $9.00/hour? Benchmarking the Minimum Wage, Dissent (March 2013)