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LaborViewpoint
Rise and Unwind
We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.
Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborFeatureLabor Organizer of the Year
Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.
Maurizio Guerrero

LaborDepartments
Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028
If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.
J. Patrick Patterson

LaborViewpointLabor Organizer of the Year
From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.
Katherine Passley

Viewpoint
The War on Vietnam Ended 50 Years Ago and the U.S. Desperately Needs More Action on Agent Orange
Congress Should mark the 50th anniversary by passing new legislation addressing the impact of Agent Orange.
Susan Schnall and Azadeh Shahshahani

FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year
Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.
Kim Kelly

Labor
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day
A guide to May Day 2025 actions.
Luis Feliz Leon

FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year
The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award brings the tough love of a 30-year Teamster to the Amazon organizing effort.
Luis Feliz Leon

Labor Organizer of the Year
In These Times Honors Academic Workers
For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.
Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year
In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers
Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.
Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.
Nelson Lichtenstein

Feature
Grocery Workers VS Goliath
Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.
Sarah Lazare

InterviewPodcast
A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution
The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.
Maximillian Alvarez

Interview
The Authoritarian State in Miniature
A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.
Shane Burley

LaborFeature
Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.
Kari Lydersen

ClimateRural America
Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program
In an internal FEMA memo, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the government’s largest climate adaptation initiative.
Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle

"You Are Not Welcome Here:" DHS Plans to Monitor Immigrants' Social Media
Those deemed to have “antisemitic activity” online could be denied green cards and other immigration clearances.
Sharon Zhang

ComicsComics
The World Is Trump's Golf Ball
New comics by Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and Peter Kuper.
Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and peter kuper
