The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Buffalo Starbucks Workers Say They Will Unionize One Store At a Time

Union elections at individual stores would be a significant labor breakthrough in the fast food industry.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

How to Make the Building Trades Work for Women

From winning maternity leave to organizing against sexual harassment, union tradeswoman are pushing for change.

Mindy Isser

Feature

School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost?

A 10-year-old reflects on remote learning challenges as we head into a new academic year.

Freyja Christian and Aimee Christian

Viewpoint

Progressives Now Hold the Cards in Congress

The budget standoff revealed a new power balance in the Democratic Party.

Nick Vachon

Viewpoint

Billionaires Need to Get on Board With More Taxes or Expect the Pitchforks

The super-rich have made a killing off of the pandemic. It’s time to tax the hell out of them to pay for programs that serve the working class.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence

My debt is symptomatic of capitalism. It should be canceled.

Nick Marcil

Feature

Military Contractor CACI Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Hurting Its Profits. It's Funding a Pro-War Think Tank.

What CACI reveals about the feedback loop between military contractors and think tanks.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

They Rappel Down Skyscrapers to Clean Windows. And They're Going On Strike.

A conversation with Eric Crone, union steward and window cleaner who works for Columbia Building Services.

Maximillian Alvarez

Feature

I Deserve Meaningful Action From My University to Address Anti-Asian Hate

Northwestern students need more than empty statements. It's time for institutional solutions.

Allison Arguezo

Labor

Colectivo Is Now the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S.—And More Could Follow

After months of waiting, the NLRB finally ruled that Colectivo workers have won their union.

Alice Herman

Viewpoint

Sanctions Didn't Help Cubans, Iranians or Venezuelans. They Won't Help Afghans.

Economic punishment is taking a brutal toll during the pandemic.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Labor

High Rise Window Cleaners, Immune to Fear, Enter Second Week of Strike

Minneapolis workers are fighting for safety standards in a risky industry.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory

With school boards becoming a battleground in the right-wing war on critical race theory, Milwaukee educators are standing up against racist censorship of American history.

Alice Herman

VIDEO: Big Agriculture Has a Bleak Future in Store for All of Us

Factory farming operations have swallowed up much of the U.S. farming economy, and independent farmers warn that we’re not prepared for the future they have in store for us.

Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino and Hannah Faris

Dispatch

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All. That Begins with Getting Cops Out.

Library staff work to remove the need for police officers within libraries and focus on de-escalating training.

Jason Christian

Rural America

In North Carolina’s Tobacco Fields, Guest Workers Battle the “Green Monster”

The state’s tobacco harvest increasingly relies on guest workers, who face nicotine poisoning and what advocates say are inadequate labor protections.

Da Yeon Eom

Labor

100 Years Ago, Miners Carried Out the Largest Armed Labor Uprising in U.S. History

During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, West Virginia workers fought for their rights in a bloody campaign to unionize the coal mines.

Paul Salstrom and Steven Stoll

Viewpoint

Leaving Afghanistan Is the Right Thing To Do. We Never Should Have Been There.

Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.

Peter Certo