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Labor
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Sarah Jaffe
Viewpoint
The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial
The Right's assault on public-sector workers is an assault on the public sector itself.
Naomi Walker
Feature
The Historic Budget Crisis That’s Threatening the Future of Public Colleges and Universities
Illinois’ budget standoff poses an existential threat to public higher education in the state.
In These Times and Kartemquin Films
Rural America
How Chicken Farmers are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You
s.e.smith
Labor
Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want.
Meaghan LaSala
Labor
Meet the Workers Who Took Overnight Buses to Bring the Fight for 15 to McDonald’s Stockholders
Stephen Franklin
Viewpoint
Don’t Mine What’s Ours
How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP.
Dayton Martindale
Culture
How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire
A new book argues that in the military's hands, warnings of world's end become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Chris Lehmann
Feature
Puerto Rico’s Longest-Held Political Prisoner Just Walked Out of U.S. Prison
Oscar López Rivera was welcomed home by large crowds in the Chicago neighborhood where he once lived.
Martín Xavi Macías
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