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Alex Hertel-Fernandez

@awhf.bsky.social

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Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.

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@rooseveltforward.orgOct 15, 2026, 4:43 PMReposted by @awhf.bsky.social

New for Fireside Stacks: Every policy shifts power, but policymakers rarely ask who gains it and who loses it. Our @aasthauprety.bsky.social speaks with @awhf.bsky.social about designing policy that builds power for workers and tenants and weakens those who undermine democracy.

@nycpolicyforum.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 4:30 PMReposted by @awhf.bsky.social

Join us for a morning of discussion and debate with @zliscow.bsky.social, Commissioner of @hellodcwp.bsky.social @saalevine.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov's Office of Child Care Executive Director Emmy Liss, @grocerynerd.bsky.social, @awhf.bsky.social, @emmurpheis.bsky.social

@povertyscholar.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:57 PMReposted by @awhf.bsky.social

In Chicago today for the Cafferty Lecture @ the UChicago Crown School. Looking forward to an insightful discussion w/ @awhf.bsky.social & other brilliant folks. We'll be talking social policy, power, organizing & democracy. Come through if you are in the Chi!
crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/...

@js-tan.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 4:16 PMReposted by @awhf.bsky.social

We're in @wired.com this morning with an excerpt from our book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY. Check it out- this excerpts goes into how tech worker activism and class struggle within the sector was one of the key factors in pushing tech elites to Trump and the MAGA right.

@awhf.bsky.socialJul 31, 2026, 2:22 PM

Over the past year, Sam Berger, Sophie Jacobson, and I have been thinking about how a federal rebuilding must center power-shifting, building civil society power for democracy.

In @donmoyn.bsky.social's Substack we wrote up our lessons; we're excited to share what we're learning! 1/

HHenry Farrell@himself.bsky.socialJul 31, 2026, 12:08 PM

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

donmoynihan.substack.comRebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing PowerWhat does a power-shifting agenda look like?
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