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Honey, I Forgot to Duck
Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.
by
Jackson Lears
via
London Review of Books
on
January 15, 2025
How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America
A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.
by
Gerald Horne
,
Anthony Ballas
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
November 9, 2023
Barbie and the Problem of Corporate Power
Stars of the movie about an iconic Mattel toy are on strike. Both the company’s history and Barbie’s plot illuminate how powerful corporations really are.
by
Rithika Ramamurthy
via
Nonprofit Quarterly
on
July 31, 2023
The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds
The deep roots of the latest WGA strike.
by
Kate Fortmueller
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 19, 2023
Hollywood Screenwriters Have Always Known That Moviemaking Is a Form of Labor
Stretching back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, writers and many others in the industry have fought for their rights as workers.
by
Ronny Regev
via
Jacobin
on
May 14, 2023
Ronald Reagan’s Guiding Light
Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.
by
Richard D. Mahoney
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 30, 2025
The Dark Legacy of Reaganism
Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The New Republic
on
February 19, 2025
Casual Viewing
Why Netflix looks like that.
by
Will Tavlin
via
n+1
on
December 16, 2024
The Paradox of the American Labor Movement
It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.
by
Michael Podhorzer
via
The Atlantic
on
April 18, 2024
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Film and television writers face an existential threat.
by
Daniel Bessner
via
Harper’s
on
March 21, 2024
Revaluing the Strike
Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.
by
Erik Baker
via
Jewish Currents
on
September 27, 2023
Storyboards and Solidarity
The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation.
by
E. Tammy Kim
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 14, 2023
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