Noam Scheiber
@noamscheiber.bsky.social
Labor and workplace reporter at the New York Times, former New Republic writer. Author of "The Escape Artists," about Obama and the Great Recession.
"In sharp contrast to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton & Biden, the Mamdani campaign was an intraparty insurrection seeking to displace what a dysfunctional and failed old guard. This semi-revolutionary element gave the Mamdani campaign its moral legitimacy: the reform of a moribund institution."
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"In sharp contrast to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton & Biden, the Mamdani campaign was an intraparty insurrection seeking to displace what a dysfunctional and failed old guard. This semi-revolutionary element gave the Mamdani campaign its moral legitimacy: the reform of a moribund institution."
"Mamdani built an insurgency within the Dem Party primary electorate first by mobilizing traditionally quiescent young voters--many of whom have found that their B.A.s do not guarantee a good job or any job at all--and then drawing in nonwhite voters and more of the college-educated middle class."
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"Mamdani built an insurgency within the Dem Party primary electorate first by mobilizing traditionally quiescent young voters--many of whom have found that their B.A.s do not guarantee a good job or any job at all--and then drawing in nonwhite voters and more of the college-educated middle class."
From Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
From Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
October 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
A decade ago about 20% of the long-term unemployed were college grads. Today it's about 1/3. And the long-term unemployment rate for college grads has been rising pretty quickly the last two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
September 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A decade ago about 20% of the long-term unemployed were college grads. Today it's about 1/3. And the long-term unemployment rate for college grads has been rising pretty quickly the last two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.
NEWS: Hundreds of developers who work on the video game Diablo have just voted to unionize with CWA. The union trend in the industry started a few years ago with quality assurance testers but has now blown up to include all job categories.
August 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NEWS: Hundreds of developers who work on the video game Diablo have just voted to unionize with CWA. The union trend in the industry started a few years ago with quality assurance testers but has now blown up to include all job categories.
Very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class.” It’s due out in April, and you can check out the summary and pre-order here if it’s of interest. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
August 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class.” It’s due out in April, and you can check out the summary and pre-order here if it’s of interest. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
New Gallup poll shows that employee engagement at work still hasn't come close to recovering from its big drop during the pandemic. gallup.com/workplace/69...
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New Gallup poll shows that employee engagement at work still hasn't come close to recovering from its big drop during the pandemic. gallup.com/workplace/69...
“How you decrease cost is not by firing the cheapest employees. You take the cheapest employee and make them worth the expensive employee.” One of the most heated debates in the AI discourse is who's more vulnerable: entry-level workers or the middle-aged. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...
July 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“How you decrease cost is not by firing the cheapest employees. You take the cheapest employee and make them worth the expensive employee.” One of the most heated debates in the AI discourse is who's more vulnerable: entry-level workers or the middle-aged. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent employees a note today about the company's use of Gen AI. Among other things, Jassy said he expected it to lower headcount at the company in the next few years. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
June 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent employees a note today about the company's use of Gen AI. Among other things, Jassy said he expected it to lower headcount at the company in the next few years. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
Summer rocks and what’s even better is that it’s not even summer yet
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Summer rocks and what’s even better is that it’s not even summer yet
Hmm. "A final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember, could begin testing this fall. Human editors would review submissions before publication." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...
June 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hmm. "A final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember, could begin testing this fall. Human editors would review submissions before publication." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...
NEWS: Video game workers at Microsoft have just reached a tentative contract with the company, the first in the industry in the U.S. after lots of union organizing over the past few years.
May 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEWS: Video game workers at Microsoft have just reached a tentative contract with the company, the first in the industry in the U.S. after lots of union organizing over the past few years.
One thing that Amazon and other big tech companies like Google are doing is having software engineers try to come up with new productivity-enhancing A.I. tools at the hackathons they periodically hold. 4/
May 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
One thing that Amazon and other big tech companies like Google are doing is having software engineers try to come up with new productivity-enhancing A.I. tools at the hackathons they periodically hold. 4/
One big takeaway is that the work piles up so quickly that some Amazon software engineers say they don’t have much time to think about their code any more. 2/
May 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
One big takeaway is that the work piles up so quickly that some Amazon software engineers say they don’t have much time to think about their code any more. 2/
Fascinating Elizabeth Williamson piece on what it cost to recruit and train the government workers who have been let go. nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Fascinating Elizabeth Williamson piece on what it cost to recruit and train the government workers who have been let go. nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
An example of the kind of information that President Trump's EEOC sought from 20 major law firms last month--several of them reached agreements with the administration last week.
April 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
An example of the kind of information that President Trump's EEOC sought from 20 major law firms last month--several of them reached agreements with the administration last week.
Wait, how is nonillion a word but not nonillionth? If the former is a word doesn’t the latter have to be?
April 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wait, how is nonillion a word but not nonillionth? If the former is a word doesn’t the latter have to be?