The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention
Heather Gies
Feature
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker
There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.
Roland Paulsen
Feature
A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death
On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations.
Roqayah Chamseddine
Labor
Illinois Manufacturing Workers Locked Out and Fired for One-Hour Strike
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Culture
Black Women, Let Your Anger Out
Chronic stress is killing us. We can’t keep repressing our rage.
Joshunda Sanders
Feature
As War on Yemen Hits the 4-Year Mark, Here’s a Brief History of U.S. Involvement
As the political tide in the United States finally turns against the war, we must not let its U.S. proponents whitewash their wrongdoing.
Shireen Al-Adeimi
Viewpoint
Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters
O’Rourke’s tabletop tour can’t hide his problematic record on workers’ rights.
Valerie Vande Panne
Viewpoint
Trump Wants To Make the 2020 Election All About Socialism. Yes, Let’s.
The Right is trying to redbait—but it will backfire.
Joel Bleifuss
Dispatch
Inside the Democratic Socialists of America’s Big Decision To Endorse Bernie Sanders
10,000 members voted “yes” in an endorsement poll, outnumbering “nos” 3 to 1, but the debate continues.
Emma Whitford
Feature
“UC for the Many, Not the Few”: Solidarity on the California Picket Lines, In Photos
Thanks to thousands of solidarity strikers, this was the largest strike of 2019.
Brooke Anderson
Feature
Climate Change. War. Poverty. How the U.S.-China Relationship Will Shape Humanity’s Path.
A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation.
Calvin Cheung-Miaw and Max Elbaum
Feature
The Case for Opening Our Borders
Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.
Brianna Rennix
Labor
“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Labor
6 Years After Rana Plaza Collapse, an Accord to Improve Bangladesh’s Worker Safety Is in Jeopardy
Michelle Chen
Viewpoint
Does Medicare for All Mean Abolishing Insurance Companies?
Two experts debate.
Natalie Shure and Max B. Sawicky
Dispatch
Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro
Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts.
Michael Fox
Labor
When Sex Workers Do the Labor of Therapists
Carrie Weisman
Labor
What It Will Take to Build Union Support for the Green New Deal—Despite the AFL-CIO
Sarah Lazare
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