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Members of the International Association of Machinists walking the picket line on Friday, May 23, 2025. In Thornhill v. Alabama, the court held that picketing is an “indispensable” right.

Remembering Labor’s Constitutional Rights Remembering Labor’s Constitutional Rights

The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those protections unless labor fights for them.

Jul 10, 2025 / Jennifer Abruzzo and Jay Swanson

Donald Trump signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.

When GDP Goes Up and Democracy Goes Down When GDP Goes Up and Democracy Goes Down

America is being hollowed out by an extractive economy.

Jul 10, 2025 / Corbin Trent

Justin Sun, head of the Tron crypto exchange (L) talks with World Liberty Financial cofounder Zach Witkoff (C) and Eric Trump of the Trump Organization at a May crypto conference in Dubai

Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist? Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader

Jul 10, 2025 / Jacob Silverman

Workers fulfill orders at an Amazon fulfillment center.

Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate

While chairman Jeff Bezos enjoys his honeymoon, Amazon workers are in line for record injuries and hospitalizations over the four-day summer sale.

Jul 8, 2025 / Jonathan Rosenblum

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon

Trump’s defense secretary loves taking selfies while presiding over administrative anarchy.

Jul 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

GOP Cuts Health Insurance

GOP Cuts Health Insurance GOP Cuts Health Insurance

Republicans Make Healthcare Access Impossible

Jul 7, 2025 / OppArt / David Small

Fourth of July reenactors march through Massachusetts

Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great

By attacking equality of citizenship, MAGA is smashing the foundations of national pride.

Jul 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A Boeing B-52H bomber in flight, August 2020.

Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is a Huge Win for the Military-Industrial Complex Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is a Huge Win for the Military-Industrial Complex

While weapons contractors will gorge on a huge new infusion of cash, military personnel, past and present, are clearly going to be neglected.

Jul 3, 2025 / William D. Hartung

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks into a microphone with a banner in the background that reads “It’s better in a Union.”

As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States

With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight.

Jul 2, 2025 / Ron Knox

Greenpeace activists deploy a giant banner at St. Mark’s Square in Venice on June 23, 2025.

Bezos Does Venice Bezos Does Venice

Back in New York City, Mamdani’s win shows even billionaires don’t always get what they want.

Jul 1, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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