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Labor

How an Old-School Electricians Union Got Behind a Socialist Running on the Green New Deal

Mindy Isser

Feature

First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You’re Praised for Sending in Aid.

The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

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

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real

Jamaal Bowman and other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left wing is a force to be reckoned with.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Viewpoint

Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper Are One and The Same

Bogus allegations waged by white women are just as dangerous as police brutality—and come from the same callous privilege.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

Rural America

Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent

Stephanie Woodard

Labor

Unpaid Prison Barber Made to Work During Covid Says, “We Aren’t Properly Disinfecting Anything”

Ella Fassler

Viewpoint

In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People

Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.

Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer

Viewpoint

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

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

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

It’s Not Just Covid That Has Hondurans Starving. It’s Also U.S. Policy.

On the roots of the Honduran hunger crisis.

Meghan Krausch

Labor

Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

Deadly Drift: The Herbicide Dicamba is Damaging Trees Across the Midwest and South

Johnathan Hettinger

LaborViewpoint

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor

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

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Undocumented Farmworkers Are Refusing Covid Tests for Fear of Losing Their Jobs

Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta

Feature

A Virtual Charter School Company Says Covid-19 Is the ‘Tailwind’ It’s Been Waiting For

Critics say online learning is failing low-income students. But some for-profit companies are pushing to make it the new normal.

Indigo Olivier

Rural America

‘An Abrupt Wake-Up Call’: Alaska Peers into a Future Without Oil

Yereth Rosen