jobs
Feature
The Oreo Workers Trump Betrayed
Trump used these workers to win the White House. Their union has fought a losing battle against outsourcing ever since.
Stephen Franklin
Feature
New York Isn’t the Only City Waging a Fight Against Amazon
The corporate giant is still milking Nashville and other runners-up for further subsidies
David Dayen
Culture
Centrist Think Tanks Won’t Save Our Cities
Economic democracy must come from below.
Gar Alperovitz
Rural America
A Rural Progressive Platform: To Fix Stuff Democrats Have to Stop Being Stupid
Anthony Flaccavento
Rural America
Peas in a Pod: The “Inner City” and 21st Century Rural America
Steven Conn
Feature
Interviews for Resistance: No, Donald Trump Is Not Bringing Back Coal Jobs
A climate justice organizer for People’s Action talks about what it takes to move from protest to power.
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Trump’s Budget Will Be a Disaster for the Climate—And Not Just in the Ways You Think
From increased military spending to tax cuts for the wealthy, everything about the new administration's economic agenda seems tailor-made to help the planet burn.
Kate Aronoff
Viewpoint
Banning the Box is Not Nearly Enough
For those who have been incarcerated, punishment doesn’t end with prison.
Lewis M. Steel
Feature
TPP: A Sweetheart Deal for Corporations, a ‘Disaster’ for People’s Rights
The White House has finally released the text of the trade deal, and the reviews are scorching.
Deirdre Fulton
Feature
A Union-Remade City
Labor is taking back New Haven. But can it put people back to work?
Jake Blumgart
Feature
Margaret Thatcher’s Ghost
The Iron Lady is being laid to rest, but her policies haunt the White House.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Feature
Paul Ryan Disses ‘The Help’ Again
Rep. Paul Ryan takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Viewpoint
Bernie Sanders: Time to Save the Middle Class
The survival of the American middle class is at stake. If we do not act and organize now, when will we?
Bernie Sanders
Feature
Foreclosed Dreams
The Obama administration’s remedy for the housing crisis benefits bankers, not homeowners.
David Moberg
Culture
‘Rebound City’ Hustle
Preachers of post-industrial revivalism say the future can be bright for dying manufacturing towns. Too bad their formula for rebirth doesn't work.
Roger Bybee
Feature
Timeout for Labor in Florida
Union leaders huddle to assess alliances, propose jobs program.
David Moberg
Feature
Obama and the State of Democrats
We ignore the lesson of 1931, 1948, 1984 and 1988 at our peril.
Vic Fingerhut
Viewpoint
The Senate’s Reconcilable Differences
Bernie Sanders
Viewpoint
From Under the Bus to a Turn at the Wheel
Working or jobless, Ohioans eye help from president on tough road to recovery
Hans Johnson
Dispatch
The Shipping Point
Between China and big box stores, minimum wage ‘temp’ workers take a stand.
Roger Bybee
Feature
SEIU’s Civil War
American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Nelson Lichtenstein