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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