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I Work with Mark Janus. Here’s How He Benefits from a Strong Union.
Donnie Killen
Rural America
An Agricultural Movement for People-to-People Reparations Puts Itself on the Map
Emeline Posner
Labor
Colorado Teachers Are Mad as Hell—And Now They’re out on Their First Strike in Decades
Rachel M. Cohen
Labor
Cynthia Nixon Was Right: New York Needs To Get with the Cannabis Equity Program
Donnell Alexander
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Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless.
Dayton Martindale
Labor
What Today’s Anti-Trump Resistance Can Learn From a Progressive Who Won in Reagan Country
Larry Cohen
Labor
Workers Just Organized the First Federally-Recognized Fast Food Union in the U.S.
Shane Burley
Labor
50,000 University of California Workers Are Still on Strike. One Key Reason: Outsourcing.
Sarah Lahm
Labor
Bernie Sanders Has a Sweeping Plan to Expand Union Rights and Workplace Democracy
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Feature
How Russia-Obsessed Democrats Set the Stage for Trump’s Disastrous Violation of the Iran Deal
Leading Democrats have bundled their push for a tough stance on Russia with escalation towards Iran.
Michael Arria and Sarah Lazare
Rural America
Two Conversations About “Sustainable Capitalism” and “The Art of Work”
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What the Deployment of Green Berets to the Saudi-Yemen Border Tells Us About America’s Dirty War
The U.S. tries to distance itself from Saudi war crimes in Yemen—but it's always been America's war too.
Shireen Al-Adeimi
Viewpoint
Say It Ain’t Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea
When will the Democrats learn that Americans don’t want centrism?
Joel Bleifuss
Labor
A New Model for Progressive Politics in the Heart of Deindustrialization
Bruce Vail
Labor
Homeownership Is Dead. The Future Lies in Public Housing.
Market-centric housing policies have failed and the path forward is clear: have the government create robust public housing.
Tanner Howard
Feature
Congress Wants to Give Trump a Bipartisan Blank Check for Declaring War
Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.
Danny Sjursen
Culture
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Labor
Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike Against “Modern-Day Slavery”
Michael Arria
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