Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez is the editor in chief of The Real News Network in Baltimore and the founder and host of the podcast Working People. He is also the author of The Work of Living, a collection of interviews with US workers recorded during the first year of the Covid pandemic. He has published essays and reported work in The Baffler, In These Times, Boston Review, The New Republic, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.

Protesters against the Gaza genocide march away from the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, last month after the company called police to disburse them.

How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military

A grassroots campaign successfully pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

Oct 1, 2025 / Maximillian Alvarez

James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform. A Project 2025 sign is seen as at the Capitol Visitor Center on September 12, 2024.

The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers

James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, explains what the “bleak” world of labor under Project 2025 would look like.

Oct 15, 2024 / Q&A / Laura Flanders and Maximillian Alvarez

Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse

Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse

How unregulated capitalism continues stoking disasters and menacing our communal well-being

Mar 28, 2024 / Maximillian Alvarez

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