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Give Every Child a $1,000 Trust Account and the Next Crisis Won’t Be So Bad

To weather the economic wreckage of the Covid-19 crisis—and prepare for future disasters—we should enact a Just Futures Fund.

Jim Pugh

Rural America

Meat Factory Work is Dangerous in Normal Times. The Same Conditions Spread Covid-19

Michael Haedicke

Labor

The Year of Magical Thinking

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

SARS Lessons Lost

What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

Indigo Olivier

Feature

Do Charter Schools’ “Core Values” Apply to Workers?

A conversation with MacKenna Alvarez, a middle-school teacher in New York City.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Democratic Socialist Officials Lay Out Demands for Local Government Responses to Covid-19

A just response to the pandemic requires centering working people. Here's where to start.

Democratic Socialist Elected Officials

Labor

The Vet Techs Nursing Your Puppies Say They’re Poorly Compensated and Scared of Getting Sick

Argow Wass

Labor

The Long-Neglected Online Labor Organizing Space Is Getting More Crowded

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The President Is Goading Anti-Lockdown Militias to Violence

We must not overlook the danger of Trump's signaling.

Max Elbaum

Viewpoint

The U.S. Response to Covid-19 Has Lavished Wealth on the Rich

While the pandemic ravages American workers, the federal government has orchestrated a monumental transfer of wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Viewpoint

Look at How Much Sense It Makes to Do the Green New Deal Right Now

We can get out of this depression and save the planet all at once.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Striking Bus Drivers Steer the Way to a Better World

Mindy Isser

Rural America

EPA Gives Agribusiness Giant Syngenta a Pass on Pesticide Monitoring Due to Covid-19 Concerns

Johnathan Hettinger

Feature

The Disconnect Between the Stock Market and the Real Economy Is Destroying Our Lives

Stocks are the wall that protects the rich from the consequences of this crisis

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

The Absolute Minimum That Democrats Should Demand In the Next Stimulus

The next stimulus package must include aid to state and local governments, protections for employed and unemployed workers, and investments in our democracy.

Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz

Labor

The Pentagon Wants Workers in Other Countries to Risk Their Lives for U.S. Arms Industry Profits

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Amazon Labor Activism Goes International as European and U.S. Workers Combine Forces

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

A Mask Shortage Could Leave Farmers and Farm Workers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides

Melanie Bateman