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How to Unionize During Covid-19

Aminah Sheikh, a labor organizer with Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, talks about how to mobilize workers in the midst of a pandemic.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Thousands of Essential Workers Are at Risk of Deportation

Maurizio Guerrero

Labor

Kick the Boss Out of the Doctor’s Office

Shaun Richman

Viewpoint

Trump’s “Reopening” Is a Red Herring

We should not concede the language of “reopening” to right-wing liars who are sending poor people to their death.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

The Covid-19 Crisis Shows Why Food Should Be a Human Right

With lines at food banks stretching for miles, the need has never been clearer to guarantee food to all U.S. residents.

Paul J. Baicich

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Time for Progressives to Seize the Means of Production of House Relief Bills

Pelosi’s bill proves Democratic leadership won’t do what needs to be done.

Hamilton Nolan

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10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health

Drug companies are lobbying to protect their right to profit from any future Covid-19 vaccine.

Dayton Martindale

Viewpoint

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