Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor-in-Chief and co-Executive Director of The Real News Network in Baltimore. He is also the host of Working People, “a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today,” and the author of The Work of Living, a collection of interviews with US workers recorded during Year One of COVID-19. Prior to joining TRNN, he was an Associate Editor at the Chronicle Review. His writing has been featured in outlets like The Nation, Boston Review, The Baffler, In These Times, Current Affairs, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and as an analyst and commentator he has appeared on programs like PBS NewsHour, Laura Flanders & Friends, Breaking Points, Democracy Now!, The New Republic, NPR’s 1A, The Hill’s Rising, and more.