William Forbath News Today

A SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could lead to chaos for the federal government’s finances.

The University and all of us in it are understandably concerned about disrupting core teaching and research missions in the short term.

The GOP remains committed to promoting the interests of the wealthy in government. Democrats win by fighting back.

"For American progressives, the Supreme Court has become a maddening institution." So write Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath in Monday's New York Times. Their central accusation is that the highest court’s GOP-nominated majority consistently moves the law and thereby the country toward oligarchy — the rule of an economically and socially rich few. They are wrong.

A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.

<p>Although scholars have identified the Reconstruction Amendments as a redemption of the flaws of the original Constitution, it's important to understand, as critics did at the time, that the 14th and 15th Amendments left many gaps in the American democracy. </p>

<p>Although scholars have identified the Reconstruction Amendments as a redemption of the flaws of the original Constitution, it's important to understand, as critics did at the time, that the 14th and 15th Amendments left many gaps in the American democracy. </p>

<p>Although scholars have identified the Reconstruction Amendments as a redemption of the flaws of the original Constitution, it's important to understand, as critics did at the time, that the 14th and 15th Amendments left many gaps in the American democracy. </p>

Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift charts the transformation of Pittsburgh’s political economy from World War II through 2008. This Review suggests that the long-term process of capitalist development—which is central to Winant’s account—also helped to reshape our labor law over the same period.   

An article by Staughton Lynd about the militant unionism of the 1930s.