deindustrialization

Politics

You Can’t Replace the Desire for Economic Stability With iPads

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Mar 12, 2025 The neoliberal policy project can’t achieve durable political victory because it destroys a beloved vision of American life. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Wonks Who Refuse to Apologize for NAFTA

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Oct 10, 2024 Why is it so hard to say you’re sorry to the victims of deindustrialization? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Legalizing Tyranny

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Mar 4, 2018 The U.S. judicial system routinely provides unfair trials and coerces defendants—often poor people of color, and often innocent—into accepting plea deals that call for brutally long sentences. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

To Save the United States, Progressives Must Dispel the Economic Pain That Enabled Donald Trump

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 19, 2016 That begins with understanding how Democrats failed to address the mass trauma wrought by deindustrialization and its resulting racism. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Why Donald Trump Is Just A Symptom

By Sherry Linkon / Moyers & Company Aug 19, 2016 After plants closed, the economic, social and psychological effects continued for decades and across generations. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit

By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch Apr 20, 2015 The city that was the arsenal of the 20th century may also provide the blueprint for a more precarious era: 100,000 of its residents are on what many call an eviction “conveyor belt.” Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Weapons ‘R’ Us: Making Warbirds Instead of Thunderbirds

By William Astore, TomDispatch Jan 26, 2012 “Makin’ Thunderbirds” is about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be making Ford cars. But in the early 1980s, Bob Seger sings, “the plants have changed and you’re lucky if you work." Now America's plants make the deadliest of weapons. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )