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Working or Unemployed, Construction Workers Are Screwed

Hamilton Nolan

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Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism

Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay

Branko Marcetic

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The Senate’s $2 Trillion Bailout Falls Flat on Worker Protections

The coronavirus financial relief package is packed full of corporate giveaways and lacks basic safeguards for workers and their families.

Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz

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The Big Idea: Mandatory Voting

In These Times Editors

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A Caucus for Black Youth

Eli Day

Dispatch

Death Metal for a Dying Planet

Mario Reinaldo Machado

Viewpoint

The Swing Voter Chimera

Micah Uetricht

Viewpoint

The 7% Matter

Dan Cohen

Labor

Warehouse Workers Suspect Amazon’s Promise of PTO for Part-Time Employees Is a Bait-and-Switch

Rebecca Burns

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Open the Borders. Open the Prison Gates. Don’t Sacrifice a Single Person to This Virus.

Closed borders and ICE raids mean crowded detention centers and camps, which is always inhumane. In a pandemic, it’s a global public health threat.

Khury Petersen-Smith

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Wall Street Wants To Let Us Die So They Can Profit

Because self-isolation hurts corporate profits, billionaires are calling to end the too-limited public health measures taken so far by the US government. Unless we take action, Trump might heed their advice — and enormous numbers of people could die as a result.

Eric Blanc

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Workers Have a Birthright to Tell Our Own Stories

A conversation with activist and oral historian Candace Wolf about her self-published book of interviews with workers all over the world.

Maximillian Alvarez

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5 Years of U.S.-Saudi War Have Left Yemen Highly Vulnerable to a Coronavirus Outbreak

Any U.S. response to the global pandemic must end the war.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Labor

Back to Work? You First.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

The Italian Workers Fighting Like Hell to Shut Down Their Workplaces

Leopoldo Tartaglia

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We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

The reliance on the military for emergency response is a testament to the failures of the U.S. welfare state.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

We Need a Coronavirus Fiscal Stimulus That’s Bigger Than $2 Trillion. And We Need it Now.

The risk of going too small on stimulus is large, while the risk of going too big is almost nonexistent.

Josh Bivens

Labor

Worried Call Center Workers Do Not Understand Why They Are Risking Their Lives for Customer Service

Hamilton Nolan