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

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

New Interview on My Views on Faith and Labor, in the UC Observer

Journalist Katie Toth interview me on faith and unions, here’s one snippet from the longer interview. Q Why do many organizers not seem to consider religious life as significant to their efforts? A I don’t know. It’s a question I ask all the time. Many of the best organizers in the trade-union sector are willing to work 18- or 19-hour days. Read More

Feb. 27th Feature Interview in the Nation Magazine, by DD Guttenplan

Guttenplan describes this 4000 word interview this way: “We first spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where, amid the self-congratulation, she cautioned me that “Clinton hadn’t sealed the deal” with the white suburban women that McAlevey had met helping to organize Philadelphia-area hospitals. After her warning proved prophetic, we resumed our conversation—this time focusing on the question at the heart of her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.” Read More