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Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Ethan Porter

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is an assistant professor at Columbia University and the author of Politics at Work (Oxford, 2018). Ethan Porter is an assistant professor at George Washington University. Both are members of the Scholars Strategy Network.

Latest articles by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Ethan Porter

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What unions can do after the shock of the Supreme Court’s Janus decision.

By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Ethan Porter