November 2022 Volume 46, Issue 10

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Labor

In California, Independent Truckers Face Uncertain Future Stephen Franklin

Bosses Hate This One Trick In These Times Editors

Amy’s Kitchen Workers Protested Their Working Conditions. Then They All Lost Their Jobs. Emily Janakiram

Why Aren’t Workers at Unions Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness? Audrey Winn

Independent Unions Are Great—And Proof of Labor's Broken Institutions Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

How Progressives Can Counter ‘Tough-on Crime’ Messaging Robert Kraig

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Call for Socialist Feminism Barbara Ehrenreich

Feature

Don’t Look Now But Progressives Are About to Expand Their Ranks in Congress Branko Marcetic

Dispatch

The Protest Camp Where Houseless Activists Fight Luxury High Rises Hana Urban

Culture

Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South Sherell Barbee

Feature Cover Story

Don’t Look Now But Progressives Are About to Expand Their Ranks in Congress

A lot is uncertain about the midterms, but there's one thing we do know—the House will have the largest left cohort in decades.

Branko Marcetic

Amy’s Kitchen Workers Protested Their Working Conditions. Then They All Lost Their Jobs.

“They treat you like you’re nothing. Like cockroaches.”

Emily Janakiram

In California, Independent Truckers Face Uncertain Future

A California law making it harder for trucking companies to classify drivers as independent contractors is now in effect—with big implications for truckers at America’s largest ports.

Stephen Franklin

Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South

“There’s so much politicizing of trans lives and at the heart of it, I just want to wear my dress.”

The Protest Camp Where Houseless Activists Fight Luxury High Rises

Houseless protesters in Chicago occupied a parking lot and then set up a long-term camp to fight gentrification—with the support of the neighborhood.

LaborDepartments

Bosses Hate This One Trick

Work-to-rule is not walking away from a fight, but a different way to fight.

In These Times Editors

How Progressives Can Counter ‘Tough-on Crime’ Messaging

Crime plays on primal emotions. We need deep engagement to transform people's thinking.

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Call for Socialist Feminism

“Feminism—despite all our efforts—is still largely a middle-class movement and ideology,” Ehrenreich wrote in 1984—words that are still relevant today.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Why Aren’t Workers at Unions Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness?

While Biden has taken steps to provide student debt cancellation, union workers are excluded from a key relief program—while workers at anti-labor groups like the Heritage Foundation are covered.

Independent Unions Are Great—And Proof of Labor's Broken Institutions

The inspiring wave of independent labor organizing also represents the failure of existing unions.

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