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Election 2024

In States Across the Country, Voters Chose to Take On Inequality

In the 2024 election, voters passed ballot initiatives to tax the rich, fund long term care and provide paid leave.

Sarah Anderson

LaborPodcast

Seven Unions Demand An End to US Military Aid to Israel

As the genocide of Palestinians continues, millions of American workers called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the US-backed siege of Gaza.

Maximillian Alvarez and Mel Buer

Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service

Unlike other public services that are perennially on the chopping block, USPS already gets zero tax dollars. Yet a string of right-wing politicians, Donald Trump among them, have called for privatizing it.

Alexandra Bradbury

Election 2024

Trump Is Planning a Presidency of, by, and for the Rich

Now that the “pro-worker” GOP led by Donald Trump holds the reins of government, what does it plan to do? A program of handouts for big business and austerity for the rest of us.

Branko Marcetic

LaborPodcast

A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town

After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back

Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"

Two poems on incarceration.

PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II

Election 2024

Trump's Planned Immigrant Purge Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring

"The GEO Group was built for this unique moment ... and the opportunity that it will bring," said the firm's chair.

Brett Wilkins

ViewpointElection 2024

What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class

The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

Robert Reich

Election 2024

Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.

Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.

Silky Shah

Election 2024

7 States Just Enshrined Abortion Rights, as Possibility of a Federal Ban Looms

Many voters backed ballot measures to protect abortion, even as they elected a president who attacks abortion rights.

Lauren Rankin

Election 2024

Trump’s First Term Was Bad for Trans People. His Next Term Promises to Be Worse.

Here are six ways a second Trump administration may try to target trans people. We must organize our resistance now.

Lewis Raven Wallace

ViewpointElection 2024

Trump's Army of Social Vigilantes Are Coming for Payback

For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.

Maximillian Alvarez

DispatchCulture

Menopause in a Prison Cell

More women than ever are experiencing menopause behind bars—and facing barriers to care.

Kwaneta Harris

ViewpointElection 2024

The Rape Culture Election

Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”

Talia Lavin

ViewpointElection 2024

How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class

Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.

Jeff Schuhrke

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse

On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.

Adam Johnson