Essays, books, scholarship, and conversations on American politics and the history of the left.
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Rogue Elephant: The Republicans from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos (Verso, 2025)
with Kent Worcester, Third Camp Socialism: A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson Reader (Brill, 2025)
Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930 (Haymarket, 2018)
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“For Socialists, Legislative Hardball Has Limits” (Jacobin, Aug. 2026)
“Five Takeaways From Francesca Hong’s Near-Win in Wisconsin” (Jacobin, Aug. 2026)
“The Case for Carceral Minimalism” (Jacobin, Aug. 2026)
“Ruling-Class Disarray Let the GOP Go Off the Rails” (Jacobin, Aug. 2026)
“Alan Greenspan Was a Faithful Servant of the Ruling Class” (Jacobin, June 2026)
“The GOP Is at War — Without the Foreign Policy Establishment” (Jacobin, Mar. 2026)
“Donald Trump Is Staying the Course” (Jacobin, Feb. 2026)
“Paint the Town Red” (Jacobin, Dec. 2025)
“Nativism vs. the Bottom Line” (Jacobin, Nov. 2025)
“Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism” (Jacobin, Oct. 2025)
“Donald Trump Rules Over a GOP in Disarray” (Jacobin, May 2025)
“Capitalist Disorganization Has Enabled Trump’s Dominance” (Jacobin, Apr. 2025)
“A Key Opportunity to Check Trump: Stopping Medicaid Cuts” (Jacobin, Feb. 2025)
“Trump’s Weakness Is the Left’s Opportunity” (Jacobin, Jan. 2025)
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“Where Is DSA Going?” (Catalyst, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2026)
“Trump’s Takeover of the Republicans” (Catalyst, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2025)
“Behind the Republican Party Crack-up” (Catalyst, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2021)
“Racecraft as a Challenge to the Sociology of Race” (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity)
“Black Marxist Off the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as Democratic Theorists” in Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, eds., Marxism and America: New Appraisals.
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