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Viewpoint

Everyone Loves Our Mass National Hypnosis

After the final Trump-Biden debate, we only get one more chance to snap out of it.

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Shahid Buttar Wants to Take Back San Francisco For the Left

The underdog candidate running against Nancy Pelosi says the House Speaker is rich, entitled and out of touch.

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Viewpoint

Risking Your Life For a Trump Rally Means There's Nothing Left to Lose

On the campaign trail in Pennsylvania with Donald Trump, the dead mall candidate.

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Viewpoint

Nobody Seems to Grasp How Screwed We Are

A nation on the precipice hears absurd normality from the candidates who are supposed to save us.

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Labor

A Bunch of Union Organizers Explain What's Wrong with Unions

We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

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Viewpoint

It Is Good When Leaders Experience the Consequences of Their Own Decisions

Trump's Covid diagnosis could help lead to better government through karma.

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Labor

Is the Conservative Case for Organized Labor an Oxymoron?

An interview with Oren Cass about the ideas behind his “Conservative Future for the American Labor Movement.”

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Viewpoint

Bad America

Our debate recap: A nation decides whether it's time for the final act.

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Labor

Trump Is Waging War on the VA's Union, and Workers Are Living in Fear

The biggest public sector union contract in the country could be a disaster without political intervention

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What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.

Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.

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Viewpoint

Who Is Going to Stop Him?

If you don't think that Trump will steal this election, please explain why not.

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Labor

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell

The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party

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Viewpoint

The Confederacy Won't Die Until Florida Does

Election year in the epicenter of lost causes.

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Viewpoint

How to Negotiate With People Who Don’t Care If You Die

To win another stimulus bill, the Democrats need to embrace chaos.

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Labor

Time For Unions to Give the Democratic Party an Ultimatum

Money spent on organizing is always well spent. You can't say the same about political donations.

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Labor

In California, a “Labor Slate” Aims to Redefine the Relationship Between Unions and Politics

From union jobs to Medicare for All, this new pro-worker slate is pushing a progressive platform—and could become a model for how organized labor approaches elections.

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Labor

Leverage Is Everything

The striking NBA players have inherent power, but so do you.

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Labor

The Failure to Unionize the Tech Industry Will Eat the Labor Movement Alive

The pandemic has made tech stronger, but unions haven't caught up.

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Labor

A Pricey Private School Says “Quaker Values” Justify Aggressive Campaign to Destroy Its Union

Brooklyn Friends School takes advantage of a Trump labor board ruling.

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Viewpoint

This Terrifying Economic Crisis Will Make Cities Better

Amid the pandemic, the rich are fleeing American cities. That’s a good thing.

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Feature

The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia

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Labor

An Injury to Portland Is an Injury to All

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Labor

The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed

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Labor

Child Care Workers Are Now a Mighty Force With a Huge New Union. It Only Took 17 Years.

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Labor

California Hospital Workers Strike, Fracturing Pandemic’s Uneasy Labor Peace

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Feature

Philly D.A. Larry Krasner Says He’s Ready to Charge Invading Federal Agents with Crimes

He sees a way out of our "drunken stumble" into fascism.

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Labor

Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade

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Viewpoint

There Is No Plan (For You)

Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.

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Viewpoint

“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams

In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.

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Labor

The Public Sector’s Right to Strike Is Left Behind in Biden-Bernie Task Force Compromise

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Labor

The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia

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Feature

The Coddling of the Elites

Free speech for whom, exactly?

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Labor

Police Union Denies Racism, Calls AFL-CIO President “Disgraceful” in Irate Letter

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Labor

The Head of the South Dakota AFL-CIO Routinely Posts Ultra Right-Wing Memes on Facebook

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Labor

AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers

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Labor

Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice

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Labor

SEIU President: Expelling Police Unions From the Labor Movement “Has to Be Considered”

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Labor

Workers United Branch Calls on AFL-CIO to Expel Police Unions

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Labor

Assisted Living Facility Staffer Says He Was Fired for Organizing His Coworkers During the Pandemic

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LaborViewpoint

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

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Viewpoint

One Weird Trick to Slash Your City’s Police Budget Right Now

Los Angeles just announced the city is massively cutting its police budget. There has literally never been an easier—or better—time for other cities to follow suit.

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