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For the $10 Billion It Gave Shareholders, John Deere Could Have Given Each Worker $142,000
Workers made a fortune for shareholders over the last six-year contract. They should demand that they get paid their true worth before shareholders get a penny.
Colleen Boyle

Wisconsin Schools Called Police on Students at Twice the National Rate
School officials refer thousands of children to the police each year. In Wisconsin, children with disabilities or who are Black, Latino or Native bear the brunt of it.
Angelica Euseary, Clare Amari and Robert Chappell

Labor
The Rank-and-File Fight for Direct Democracy at UAW
A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.
Maximillian Alvarez

Labor
Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.
Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.
Shaun Richman

Dispatch
The $250 Difference: A Lifeline for Working Families May Disappear this December
Most U.S. welfare programs are either targeted or means-tested — the Child Tax Credit breaks this mold.
Bryce Covert

Viewpoint
"Support Afghan Women" Must Be More Than a Platitude
When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The U.S. government must release those funds.
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

Labor
She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back
Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.
Luis Feliz Leon

LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute
How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster
Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.
Alice Herman

Viewpoint
Postal Banking Is Finally a Reality in (Some of) the United States
A pilot postal banking program has been implemented in a number of U.S. cities. Next, let’s rapidly expand it—and take it nationwide.
Donald Cohen

Labor
Kellogg's Workers Are Striking Against a "Two-Tiered" System of Workplace Inequality
A conversation with Dan Osborn, who has worked at the Omaha, Nebraska, plant for 18 years.
Maximillian Alvarez

Feature
He Exposed Colombia’s Vaccine Contracts with Big Pharma. Then the Right Came for Him.
What the case of Camilo Enciso reveals about the power of pharmaceutical companies.
Sarah Lazare and Maurizio Guerrero

Labor
Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else?
Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor.
Hamilton Nolan

Rural America
How Farmers Markets and Food Trucks Became a Beachhead for Gentrification
In gentrifying neighborhoods, developers use food options to lure in more affluent residents, and longtime residents find themselves forced to compete against the “urban food machine.”
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Departments
The People the Left Lost to the Anti-Abortion Movement
After <i>Roe</i>, the Church and the Right outmaneuvered us for the moral high ground.
In These Times Editors

Labor
Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag
A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.
Maximillian Alvarez

Labor
The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing
If you want more strikes, make more union members.
Hamilton Nolan

Labor
Teamster Insurgents Could Win Their Union Election
They're planning for what comes after.
Ryan Haney

Viewpoint
The Pentagon Is Still Lying About the Deadly U.S. Drone Program
A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.
Leonard C. Goodman
