“Want to Stop Trump’s Attacks on the NLRB? History Shows Strikes Are the Answer.” Truthout, May 10, 2025.
“What It Will Take to Stop Trump’s Assault on Coal Miners (and the Rest of Us).” Common Dreams, May 2, 2025.
“Social Movements Constrained Trump in His First Term – More Than People Realize.” The Conversation, March 18, 2025.
“The Scapegoating of Immigrants Relies on Lies.” The Daily Review (Towanda, PA), July 24, 2024. (non-paywall version here)
“The Threat of Democracy on Campus at UMass.” The Nation, May 21, 2024.
“The Selective Silencing of Campus Speech.” Amherst Indy, December 11, 2023.
“Brandon Johnson Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes in Chicago.” Interview. This Is Hell! April 20, 2023.
“Brandon Johnson Won in Chicago. Now His Movement Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes.” Jacobin, April 12, 2023.
“Trump, Biden, and Why Elections Don’t Bring Bigger Policy Changes.” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023): 7–29.
“Introduction: Trump as Symptom.” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023): 1–6.
Trump and the Deeper Crisis (co-edited book, 2023)
“Stop Calling Them Conservatives.” Counterpunch, October 22, 2021.
“Georgia’s Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts. History Shows They Can Work.” Truthout, April 9, 2021.
“When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1% Wins.” Truthout, December 24, 2020. With Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, and Michael Schwartz.
“No Co-Sponsor of ‘Medicare for All’ Has Lost Reelection in the Past Decade (Even in GOP-Leaning Districts).” Common Dreams, December 21, 2020. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
“History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work.” YES! Magazine, July 8, 2020.
“The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not By Taking Obama’s Advice.” Jacobin, June 17, 2020.
Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (co-authored book, 2020)
(Review): Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas, by Amy C. Offner. The Americas 77, no. 4 (2020): 670-71.
“Our Debt to Central American Refugees.” Published by Democratic Socialists of America and Historians for Peace and Democracy, September 9, 2019.
“Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.
“Capital Strikes As a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era.” Politics & Society 46, no. 1 (2018): 3-28. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
“The Huddled Masses Were Never Welcome.” Counterpunch, September 5, 2017.
“Who’s Calling the Shots?” Jacobin, February 6, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
“When Capitalists Go on Strike.” Jacobin, February 3, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
“When You Say ‘Lesser Evil,’ Do You Mean It?” ZNet, October 20, 2016.
(Review): Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World, edited by Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim. Contemporary Sociology 45, no. 4 (2016): 506-08.
“Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism: ‘Something That Might Be Called Neocon.’” Against the Current 175 (March-April 2015): 18-22. With Diana Sierra Becerra. Reposted at Jacobin as “Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment.” (Spanish version also available)
“A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy.” Mobilization 19, no. 3 (2014): 239-60. With Michael Schwartz.
“Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How Corporate Power Shaped the Affordable Care Act.” New Labor Forum 23, no. 2 (2014): 30-40. With Michael Schwartz.
“GM’s New CEO Is Not a Feminist.” ZNet blog, May 1, 2014. With Diana Sierra Becerra.
“Turning Michigan Into Colombia: The Global Assault on Workers and the Prospects for Solidarity.” ZNet, December 26, 2012.
“The Propaganda of False Trade-Offs: Pitting the Public against Social Spending, Good Wages, and Environmental Protection.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 27, 2012.
“The Last, Best Hope on Earth: The Popular Uprisings of 2011 and the ‘Optimism of Uncertainty.’” ZNet blog, December 28, 2011.
Review of Anthony DiMaggio, The Rise of the Tea Party: Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama. ZNet/Counterpunch, December 26, 2011.
“The Violence That Never Happened: Occupy Wall Street and the Selective Outrage of the New York Times.” NYTimes eXaminer/ZNet blog, November 18, 2011.
“To Repress or Co-Opt? OWS Media Coverage Mirrors Splits within the 1 Percent.” The Indypendent (November 2-22, 2011), 15.
“167 Million People Support Occupy Wall Street: The Time Is Ripe for a Mass Movement.” ZNet/Indypendent blog, October 15, 2011.
“The Impact of Occupy Wall Street: Some Early Indicators.” The Indypendent, October 11, 2011.
“Deficit Myths: The Six Most Prevalent Lies About Budget Deficits and Economic Recovery.” ZNet, July 25, 2011.
“Shock Doctrine: New York.” ZNet, April 1, 2011.
“Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the US Vision for Latin America.” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 29, 2010. Expanded version posted on ZNet
“The Democrats’ Choice, and Ours.” ZNet blog, October 10, 2010.
“Democratic Deficits, Disillusion, and the Decline of the Democrats.” ZNet blog, January 25, 2010.
“Morally Right, Politically Popular, Economically Advantageous: Medicare for All.” ZNet blog, October 11, 2009.
“Listening to the Radicals: US History’s Lessons on Compromise and the ‘Politically Impossible.’” ZNet, September 10, 2009.
Kevin A. Young 