The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

American Workers Have Lost Control of Their Time. It’s Time To Take It Back.

Whether it’s working longer hours, having no control over work schedules, or scrambling to find enough hours to pay the bills, American workers have lost control of their working time. Getting that time back is crucial—for workers’ well-being, for democracy and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss.

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Employers Are Spying on Remote Workers in Their Homes

As the Covid-19 pandemic has forced more people to work from home, employers have begun using digital surveillance technology to increase control and maintain productivity.

Steven Hill

LaborFeature

What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.

Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

How to Transform Research and Innovation for the Common Good

The climate and Covid-19 crises make it abundantly clear we need to change our society's approach to research and intellectual property.

Thomas M. Hanna

Viewpoint

Who Is Going to Stop Him?

If you don't think that Trump will steal this election, please explain why not.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

Targeted, Imprisoned, Deported, Dead: How ICE’s Detention Can Be Deadly to Migrants

Human rights advocate Durvi Martinez was first detained by Vermont State Police. Then ICE stepped in.

Arvind Dilawar

ViewpointRural America

No Parks for the Poor

In the face of budget cuts, some land management agencies are ramping up user fees — and betraying the egalitarian promise of public lands.

Joseph Bullington

Culture

Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook

Republicans have tried to suppress turnout among voters who are poor, disabled or people of color for many years.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell

The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

A New Crisis Hotline Could Serve As an Alternative to Policing in Chicago

Police aren’t social workers. A new proposal would stop them from doing both jobs.

Taylor Moore

Viewpoint

All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

On parents' impossible decision.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

LaborViewpoint

What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back.

Lois Weiner and Jackson Potter

Labor

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago

In the face of a deadly pandemic, UIC’s largely Black and Latino hospital workforce is demanding workplace safety and livable wages.

Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America

The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls

Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not.

Victor B. Flatt and Joel A. Mintz

Climate

"We're Out Here Choking To Death": What It's Like Being Homeless on the Front Lines of the Climate Fires

A conversation with a homeless street medic working to save lives in San Francisco.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

The Confederacy Won't Die Until Florida Does

Election year in the epicenter of lost causes.

Hamilton Nolan

Climate

"Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis

New analysis finds the Global North is responsible for 92% of all excess global carbon dioxide emissions, while the Global South bears the brunt of the devastation.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union

Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College.

Indigo Olivier