Additional Books

Selected Editorials

• "Borrowed to the Hilt," Baffler, October 11, 2023.

• "Want to Honor Labor Day? Check Your Paystub," Time, September 4, 2023.

• “History explains why the left is mad over Biden’s student loan relief,” Washington Post, July 28, 2022.

• “ ‘Laboratories of Inter-race and Interfaith Fellowship:’ Higher Education for American Democracy’s Vision for a more Democratic Academy & Country,” 54:1 Change (January 2022), 9-16.

• "Higher Education for the 99 Percent," Dissent, September 17, 2021

• "Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?" TheHill, September 6, 2021.

• "Fixing the Student-Debt Crisis Isn't Enough," Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 2021

• "Policymakers created the student loan industry -- and the debt crisis," Washington Post, August 4, 2021 

• "75 years of reforms have failed to fix our college financial aid system," Washington Post, May 3, 2021

• "Our focus on a president’s first 100 days in office leads us astray," Washington Post, April 30, 2021

• “Democrats have the right idea of what covid-19 relief should look like,” Washington Post, March 27, 2020

• “Democrats shouldn’t marginalize Bernie Sanders’s ideas and supporters,” Washington Post, February 27, 2020

• “The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less,” Washington Post, April 24, 2018

• “The Toxic Practice Fueling the Fierce Competition over Amazon’s Second Headquarters,” Washington Post, January 20, 2018

• How Tax Policy Made College Unaffordable,” Washington Post, December 21, 2017

• “I’m one of the 40 million Americans paying off the $1.3 trillion in student debt,” TheJournal.ie, April 6, 2017

• “The Student Debt Crisis and Its Deniers,” Public Books, March 15, 2017

• “From Chicago to California: A Call for Unionized Universities,” Dissent: A Quarterly of Politics and Culture, February 18, 2014

• “UIC United Faculty on Front Lines of Crisis in Higher Education,” LAWCHA's Labor Online, February 5, 2014

Selected Media Mentions & Interviews

• Interview, "Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon," NPR's Throughline, July 21, 2002.

• Interview, Mitchell Stevens, “Private Pain, Public Disinvestment: Talking Student Debt with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer," Public Books, May 17, 2022

• Interview, Jacqui Germain, “Student Loan Interest Rates Mean Borrowers End Up Owing Thousands More Dollars,” Teen Vogue, March 15, 2022

• Interview, Sydney Lake, “Is Biden Actually Going to Cancel Your Student Loans?” Fortune, February 28, 2022

• Interview, Adel Aali, ThePeel.News podcast, January 14, 2022.

• Interview, Danielle Moodie, Woke AF podcast, January 12, 2022 ("No More Band Aids" episode).

• Interview, Abigail Johnson Hess, “Lawsuit Claims 16 Top Colleges Overcharged Over 170,000 Students by ‘Hundreds of Millions of Dollars,’ ” CNBC, February 11, 2022

• Interview, Sydney Lake, “How Biden Might Approach Student Loan Forgiveness in 2022,” Fortune, January 11, 2022.

• Interview, Nikki Nolan, Matter of Life and Debt podcast, December 31, 2021.

• Interview, Will Brehm, FreshEd Podcast, October 25, 2021.

• Interview, Jessica Ann Levy, Who Makes Sense Podcast, October 4, 2021.

• Interview, Sydney Lake, “Mass student loan forgiveness? Don’t Count on it says Biden appointee,” Fortune, September 21, 2021

• Interview, Majority Report with Sam Seder, August 16, 2021 

• Interview, Scott Jaschick, Inside Higher Ed, August 3, 2021

• Interview, Michael Brown, Shadow Politics radio program, August 2, 2020

• Interview, Dan Zak, “American Exceptionalism Was Our Preexisting Condition,” Washington Post, July 22, 2020

• Interview, Christopher Borrelli, “Do you appreciate your supermarket cashier? Re-reading Studs Terkel’s ‘Working’ for the Pandemic,” Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2020

• Interview with Jen White, “What’s Behind America’s ‘Union Moment’?” WBEZ, October 29, 2019

• Interview with Mary Ann Ahern, “Illinois Proposes 10 Chicago-Area Sites for Amazon Headquarters,” NBC 5, October 20, 2017

• Interview, Here and Now, NPR, June 21, 2016

• Interview, Dissent Magazine’s Belabored Podcast, released March 6, 2015

• BBC4 Women’s Hour Segment on Reproductive Politics and the Republican Primaries, March 7, 2012

Selected Scholarly Publications

Selected Journal Articles & Book Chapters

• “Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student Debt Crisis,” in Nelson Lichtenstein et al. (eds.), Capitalism Contested: The New Deal and Its Legacies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

• “A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Rise of the American Public University,” 157-178 in Kim Phillips-Fein and Richard John (eds.), Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

• “ ‘The South’s No. 1 Salesman:’ Luther Hodges and the Nuevo South’s Transatlantic Circuitry,” in Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow (eds.), America’s World: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

• “Banking on Government” in Steven Conn (ed.), To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government (Oxford University Press, 2012), 65-84.

• “Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958,” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009), 81-118.

• “Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor,” Journal of American History 95 (December 2008), 678-709.

Selected Literature Reviews

• “The Ongoing Crisis in American Colleges,” European Journal of American Culture 37:1 (April 2018), 90-94.

• “The Geography of Postwar American Business,” Business History Review (June 2016).

• “Whither the Right? Old and New Directions in the History of American Conservatism,” Reviews in American History(December 2016), 644-652.

• “Neo-Liberalism,” Journal of Modern History 86 (December 2014). 

• “The New History of Capitalism,” Journal of American History, online interchange, 101 (September 2014).

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