Dan Kaufman is the author of “The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics” (W.W. Norton, 2018). He writes frequently about labor, Midwestern politics, and economic inequality. His second book will be a narrative history of deindustrialization and the creation of the Rust Belt, following five families as they navigate the rise of neoliberalism.
Kaufman is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. His New Yorker article “On the Line,” about the 2023 U.A.W. strike, won a Sidney Award for outstanding journalism from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. He has received support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and two fellowships to the MacDowell Colony. He grew up in Wisconsin and currently lives in the Catskill Mountains with his wife and son.
