The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

How Unions Are Fighting to Protect Abortion Rights

From collective bargaining to creative use of release time, unions can defend the reproductive freedom of their members. Here's how some are doing it.

C.M. Lewis

Viewpoint

In the Wake of Uvalde, a Teacher's Plea for Police-Free Schools

My students are safer in classrooms without cops. The latest mass school shooting only makes that clearer.

Nataliya Braginsky

Feature

Cancer Is an Environmental Problem

Why federal funding for cancer research must examine its human-made causes.

Anita Carraher

DispatchRural America

Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists—and Win

As gentrification sweeps the West, investors are buying up mobile home parks. Residents of this Colorado park got together and bought it themselves.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

Intelligentsia Coffee Workers Join Starbucks and Colectivo in Unionizing

The cafe organizing wave continues to grow as workers at all Intelligentsia stores in Chicago file for a union election.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

I Went on Strike to Cancel My Student Debt and Won. Every Debtor Deserves the Same.

Former students of Corinthian Colleges just won the largest student debt cancelation in Education Department history. Now it’s time for Biden to cancel debt for everyone.

Ann Bowers

Labor

One Big Union for Charter Schools?

A conversation with Tyler Powles, who was a 4th-grade teacher at Caliber: Beta Academy for five years, and Erinn Murphy, an education specialist (and school parent) at Caliber: ChangeMakers Academy.

Maximillian Alvarez

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

Mining Companies Strike Gold by Destroying Public Lands

Indigenous tribes sound the alarm about a mining boom

Stephanie Woodard

Labor

These Baristas Have Been on Strike for Over 3 Months to Get Their Union Recognized

At Great Lakes Coffee, workers are on the picket line demanding their rights—part of a growing national movement to organize the cafe industry.

Hannah Faris

Viewpoint

Don’t Let a School Shooting Become a Story About the Police

Guns are the issue. A lot of the political establishment wants you to forget that.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

How Amazon and Starbucks Workers Are Upending the Organizing Rules

Workers are leading. Unions should support them or get out of the way.

Chris Brooks

Rural America

They Pick Food All Day, But Many Farmworkers Go to Sleep Hungry

Immigrant farmworkers in the U.S. often live in food deserts without access to the fruits and vegetables they spend their days harvesting.

Astra Lincoln

Feature

The Pentagon Is Protecting and Funding the Same Gun Makers Democrats Want to Regulate

Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by the Robb Elementary shooter, has been handed over 100 federal contracts.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Meet the Tongan-American Unionist on a Pilgrimage To Support Striking Workers Around the U.S.

A conversation with Tevita 'Uhatafe, a rank-and-file member of the Transport Workers Union Local 513 in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Starbucks. Amazon. Now, Trader Joe’s Is Unionizing.

Workers are pushing for the grocery store chain’s first union.

Jeremy Gantz

Labor

As Illinois Coal Jobs Disappear, Some Are Looking to the Sun

While Illinois phases out coal, clean energy jobs hold promise—both for displaced coal workers, and those harmed by the fossil fuel economy.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Teachers at the Blue Man Group’s "Progressive" School Strike Over Union Busting

The private Blue School in New York teaches labor history. Its teachers just walked off the job.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

The U.S. Is Complicit in Shireen Abu Akleh's Killing

If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime—it’s against U.S. law, too

Phyllis Bennis and Richard Falk