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New comics by Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling.

Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling

LaborFeatureClimate

The Flooded Future of Disaster Labor

Day laborers, a workforce threatened by Trump, are key to rebuilding after disasters.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Global Trade at Gunpoint

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world

Sarah Lazare

FeatureCover StoryPolitics

“I Am Not Afraid”

The Trump administration is attacking protesters from all angles. Activists refuse to back down.

Adam Federman

LaborViewpoint

Trump’s Budget Bill Will Massively Expand the Racial Wealth Gap

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.

LaToya Parker and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

Rural America

Trump’s Cuts to AmeriCorps Are Stripping Resources from Rural Communities

DOGE has slashed over 1,000 AmeriCorps grants, many of which funded education and social services in rural areas.

Ilana Newman

LaborInterview

What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself

"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."

Sarah Jaffe

InterviewPolitics

The Christian Right’s 250-Year Fight Against America

Many religious groups have wanted to destroy liberal democracy, explains author Jerome Copulsky. But before Trump, none had taken power.

Kathryn Joyce

LaborFeature

Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment

Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.

Sarah Jaffe

Housing

Dos Sindicatos de Inquilinos, Una Huelga de Renta

Cómo los inquilinos de dos vecindarios de Chicago se encontraron—y pelearon juntos—cuando el mismo inversionista intentó desplazarlos.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

La Iniciativa de Chicago para Leyes de Desalojos por “Causa Justa”

Un nuevo decreto evitaría que los propietarios de inmuebles desalojen a los inquilinos a la fuerza.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Workers Vote to Unionize

The nation's premier cultural stage joins a chorus of voices in the arts demanding just labor conditions as a pillar of free expression.

Michelle Chen

Politics

No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen

The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.

Sarah Lazare

LaborDispatch

The Cost of Salt

India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.

Pragathi Ravi

Housing

Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike

How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

Chicago’s Push for “Just Cause” Evictions

A new ordinance would stop landlords from evicting willy-nilly.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

Kim Kelly

ViewpointPolitics

Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power

Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.

Asha Ransby-Sporn