Politics

LaborPolitics

Elon Musk's DOGE Targets Labor Department

Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.

Kim Kelly

ViewpointPolitics

They're Not Done Gutting the Programs We Rely On

Trump’s attempt to freeze federal funds for government services was an effort to steal our tax dollars to enrich billionaires. And he’ll try again.

Karen Dolan

ViewpointPolitics

The New DNC Chair Should Put the Working Class at the Center of the Democratic Party

To counter the tech oligarchy of Trump’s second term, Democrats need to offer a clear message: no to corporate power and economic elites, yes to more democracy and worker organizing.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

ViewpointPolitics

Trump Is Already Planning Colossal Tax Giveaways to Corporations and Billionaires

President Trump campaigned on lowering prices for Americans. Instead, his first priority is to cut taxes for the super rich while slashing social programs for working people.

Lindsay Owens

DispatchPolitics

You Are Invited to the Predators' Ball, as Food

At Trump’s second inauguration, no one wanted to admit they were the suckers.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointPolitics

Looking for the Resistance

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.

Hamilton Nolan

InvestigationPolitics

Trump's Greenland Problem

As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman