A Lifetime Sentence: Imprisoned Minds A Lifetime Sentence: Imprisoned Minds
Incarcerated people’s mental health is ignored.
Apr 26, 2024 / OppArt / Hector Manuel Rodriguez
Fellow Freelancers: Don’t Marry Rich, Organize! Fellow Freelancers: Don’t Marry Rich, Organize!
The problem is systemic: Freelance life is underpaid. The solution must be systemic too.
Apr 25, 2024 / Amy Littlefield
The “Troublemakers” of the Labor Movement Gather in Chicago The “Troublemakers” of the Labor Movement Gather in Chicago
The Labor Notes conference explodes, with growing ranks of unionists, new organizers taking on goliaths like Amazon and Starbucks, and veterans invigorated by reform victories.
Apr 24, 2024 / Ella Fanger
Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind
Around 80 percent of the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who graduated high school in 2023 don’t qualify for DACA.
Apr 24, 2024 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra
As Atrocities Unfold, Those Documenting Rights Violations Are Getting Laid Off As Atrocities Unfold, Those Documenting Rights Violations Are Getting Laid Off
Human Rights Watch just let go of 39 staffers. Workers are demanding executives take pay cuts instead
Apr 24, 2024 / Saliha Bayrak
Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like
A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition.
Apr 23, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis
We have a choice: We can allow Big Tech to solve the problem with invasive brain technology. Or we can let educators teach students how to pay attention.
Apr 22, 2024 / Jac Mullen
This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay
The costs of climate change are falling on those least responsible. This year, we must ask our elected officials for more than just flimsy commitments to sustainability.
Apr 22, 2024 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen
The Education Factory The Education Factory
By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.
Apr 22, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Erik Baker
Nation Interview: Shawn Fain on Volkswagen and the UAW's Southern Strategy Nation Interview: Shawn Fain on Volkswagen and the UAW's Southern Strategy
“These companies are more profitable than the Big Three ever dreamed of being, and the workers are paid even less.”
Apr 18, 2024 / Q&A / John Nichols