Media Coverage
Changing the narrative is never enough. But positive coverage helps.

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Harper’s Magazine Review of No Shortcuts

I couldn’t have ever imagined my name and Ivanka Trump’s name in the same sentence, let alone book review. But author Dayna Tortorici does an amazing job using the arguments in my book to help decimate the fake feminism of Silicon Valley’s Sheryl Sandberg and Ivanka Trump. Not well understood in the daily coverage of “women’s issues,” and the “women’s movement” is the simple fact that the largest, most powerful organization of women in the USA remains the labor movement. Read More

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Tips from history in an age of Trump, protests

Katherine Whittemore, a Boston Globe correspondent, recommends No Shortcuts as follow up to the national Women’s March. Speaking of which, let’s turn to “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age” (Oxford 2016). “I read it on a weekend so was extra struck by how we blithely say TGIF, forgetting that the labor movement fought decades for the concept of the weekend, as author Janet McAlevey reminds. Read More

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Nation Magazine Review’s No Shortcuts, March 8, 2017

As an author, I appreciate anytime someone makes the time to review my book. But this review, by Rich Yeselson, seems seriously gender biased. I think that means sexist. While Yeselson does in fact suggest people buy and read my book, which is great (thanks Rich), and he doesn’t actually say that about the two other books, he seems to suggest that women don’t have big ideas, and, he fails to mention any of my actual work accomplishments. Read More

In These Times Magazine’s New Guide to the Guide’s for the Resistance Puts No Shortcuts on the Short List

Kate Aronoff is recommending No Shortcuts for the second time since my new book was published (she did an interview that is also on this website somewhere!). Aronoff offers a concise and smart discussion in her full article, which I recommend reading. Near the end, she says, “In part thanks to the Sanders campaign, this next Left is more explicitly interested in electoral politics, and in finding a synergy between the barricades and the ballot box. Read More