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Labor

The Tech Industry’s Push to Hire Autistic Workers Could Be a Recipe for Hyper-Exploitation

Julianne Tveten

Rural America

The Transition into a New Life: Church Land into Farmland

Leilani Clark

Labor

Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Could Spell a Fresh Hell for Workers’ Rights

Moshe Z. Marvit

Labor

With Anti-China Protectionism, the Left Is Aiding Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda

Tobita Chow

Feature

Amazon Is One Step Closer To Taking a Cut on Literally Every Economic Transaction

In a $5.5 billion sweetheart deal, Amazon has inserted itself between local businesses and local governments.

David Dayen

Labor

For Many Undocumented Workers, There’s No Such Thing As Minimum Wage

Sebastián González de León

Rural America

Quality Over Quantity: Shrinking Towns Can Thrive

B.A. Morelli

Labor

“No More Racist Bosses”: Why Workers at a Suburban Target Store Are Protesting

Bruce Vail

Feature

Scott Pruitt’s Replacement at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, Could Be Even Worse

Wheeler might be able to navigate his way around the agency more effectively than Pruitt—and therefore do more damage.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

What the Supreme Court’s Week of Hell Means for People of Color

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?

We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.

Angie Schmitt

Feature

Tammy Duckworth Seems To Have Forgotten That Not All Midwesterners Are White

Duckworth said that while left politics are popular in the Bronx, they can't win in the Midwest. She's wrong in more ways than one.

Eli Day

Rural America

Rural Illinois’ Stake in the Poor People’s Campaign

Holly Ann Stovall

Labor

Is It Time for Parents to Unionize?

Rebecca Stoner

Culture

Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust

A new film follows a working-class everyman through the margins of Brazilian capitalism.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE

Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

Emma Goldman: A New Declaration of Independence

In an essay published in July 1909 in Mother Earth, Goldman—a lifelong radical—reminds readers that all humans were created equal.

Emma Goldman

Feature

Eugene Debs: The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World

In an Independence Day speech in 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs declared: "I like the 4th of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution. On this day we reaffirm the ultimate triumph of Socialism. It is coming as certain as I stand in your presence."

Eugene Debs