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A Former Sundown Town Passed Reparations and Rent Control. Now It's Fighting to Keep Them.

Culver City’s first Black Mayor, Daniel Lee, wants to make California the bastion of progressive politics some imagine it to be.

Paige Oamek

Labor

Student Loans are a Burden for Black Educators. Cancel Them.

A conversation with Stacy Davis Gates, the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, about why canceling student debt is a labor issue.

Paige Oamek

Feature

What Happens After Movement-Backed Politicians Take Office

As the “co-governance” model gains traction, here’s a look into the promises and pitfalls—and how organizers are reimagining electoral politics.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Labor

The Amazon Union Campaign Won By Following the Lead of Workers

Amazon Labor Union shows us an essential ingredient of successful union campaigns: democratic autonomy.

Shaun Richman

Labor

How Workers Used Amazon's Captive Audience Meetings Against the Company

Workers flipped the script on the e-commerce giant by turning anti-union tactics into organizing opportunities.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

Under Biden, Private Detention Isn’t Ending—It’s Changing Form

The Biden administration promised to end private prisons. Instead, it has allowed them to be converted into immigration detention facilities.

Joshua Leach and Hannah Hafter

LaborFeature

Amid Rolling Blackouts, Energy Workers Fight For Clean Public Power In South Africa

Can South Africa transition from a reliance on coal to clean power while maintaining jobs? The energy workers fighting for a just transition think so.

Casey Williams

Labor

The Real Scandal at the Oscars Was When Celebrities Crossed a Picket Line

Forget the Will Smith and Chris Rock altercation—hospitality workers got thrown under the bus when a host of Hollywood elites entered an Oscars night party at a hotel under union boycott.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Why Workers Picketed the Southern Poverty Law Center

Employees and union activists say the civil rights organization mistreats its lowest-paid and most marginalized workers.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborFeatureInterview

How To Build Fierce and Worker-Centered Unions

A Q&A with an organizer about her new book and on building worker power through resilience.

Paige Oamek

Labor

Striking Workers Say Brooklyn Oil Terminal Is a Safety Disaster Waiting to Happen

United Metro Energy employees out on strike say that management replaced them with workers who weren’t certified to operate the terminal, increasing the risk of an oil spill.

Inci Sayki

Viewpoint

A New Generation of Palestinian Organizers Has Arisen From the Ashes of the Oslo Accords

From Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza to inside Israeli prisons, Palestinians are increasingly embracing collective resistance.

Omar Zahzah

Feature

Biden Is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Justify Dangerous Investments in Nuclear Weapons

The president's budget calls for $50.9 billion in nuclear weapons spending.

Sarah Lazare

Culture

How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family

And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean

Lauren Celenza

LaborFeature

Like a Moth to a Flame, Workers Unite

The Triangle shirtwaist factory fire continues to inspire and motivate current labor movements more than a century later.

Daisy Pitkin

Republican Attacks on SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Show “Total Bankruptcy” of the GOP

Critics say the "childish political theater" is intended to keep the Republican base "in a constant state of frothing-at-the-mouth" so they show up at the ballot box.

Jessica Corbett

Viewpoint

The Mirror of War

The war in Ukraine pits America's capacity for self-reflection against our love for self-deception.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Howard University Faculty Win Tentative Agreement Just Hours Before Planned Strike

After nearly four years of bargaining with the university to get their first union contract, lecturers at Howard University narrowly avert a strike at the 11th hour.

Maximillian Alvarez