Author

Anthony Pahnke
Anthony Pahnke received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2014. Before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University, he taught at St Olaf College in Minnesota. His research on development and trade policy, social movements, and agrarian politics, with a focus on North and South America, has appeared in a variety of academic journals, newspaper editorials, and online publications. His book, Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement, is out with the University of Arizona Press. His current projects include analyzing the dynamics of transnational mobilization in the Americas and the development of sovereignty in the United States.
We should all aspire to be peasants
By: Anthony Pahnke and Jim Goodman - August 4, 2022
Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a lot lately. Years of stagnant or falling farm income in many ways paralleled the stagnant wages of […]
Make a resilient, localized food system part of the next stimulus
By: Anthony Pahnke and Jim Goodman - May 26, 2020
From wasted food, to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus legislation that includes policy to reform our inflexible, consolidated system and to prepare for future crises. Consider the many problems in the meat industry. Workers ill […]
USMCA is a failure, and the Democrats know it
By: Jim Goodman and Anthony Pahnke - December 23, 2019
The 1994 version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was impressively terrible. President Donald Trump said it was the worst trade deal ever. Of course, that was because NAFTA was not negotiated by his administration. His 2018 version, the USMCA, was even worse. The original NAFTA did nothing to benefit workers or farmers […]