Hungary’s ‘Slave Law’ Has Sparked Nationwide Protests Hungary’s ‘Slave Law’ Has Sparked Nationwide Protests
New legislation allows businesses to impose a massive amount of overtime on workers—and citizens are furious.
Dec 21, 2018 / Jordan Stancil
The Battle Over NAFTA 2.0 Has Just Begun The Battle Over NAFTA 2.0 Has Just Begun
Progressives must fight strategically to improve it—if they don’t, the consequences could be devastating.
Dec 21, 2018 / Feature / Lori Wallach
Zimbabwe Has 5 Currencies but No Plan to Address Its Crisis Zimbabwe Has 5 Currencies but No Plan to Address Its Crisis
How can Zimbabwe recover from 80,000,000,000 percent inflation?
Dec 21, 2018 / Nanjala Nyabola
Who’s Leading the Next Unionization Charge? That’s Right: Florida. Who’s Leading the Next Unionization Charge? That’s Right: Florida.
The Service Employees International Union is poised to represent half of all adjunct faculty in the “right to work” state’s public-school system.
Dec 20, 2018 / StudentNation / Jake Bittle
Letters From the January 14-21, 2019, Issue Letters From the January 14-21, 2019, Issue
Beyond family… Fox lite… One more lesson… No nukes are good nukes… Laying waste…
Dec 20, 2018 / Our Readers
What’s It Like to Work at Amazon? What’s It Like to Work at Amazon?
Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate offers an unsparing portrait of a German Amazon warehouse.
Dec 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Alex Press
What Does AMLO Mean for Migrants? What Does AMLO Mean for Migrants?
Mexico’s new president has signaled a more progressive, holistic approach to immigrants from Central America, but advocates want policies to follow the promises.
Dec 18, 2018 / Madeleine Wattenbarger
‘Survivor’ and the Strange Thrill of Late Capitalism’s Reality TV ‘Survivor’ and the Strange Thrill of Late Capitalism’s Reality TV
The show fabricates a society to study how power is distributed within it, and in doing so, magnifies the demands that capitalism makes of ordinary people.
Dec 18, 2018 / Erin Schwartz
Why the Time Has Come for a Green New Deal Why the Time Has Come for a Green New Deal
It’s smart politics and smart policy—and it’s enormously popular with the public.
Dec 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women
Alabama’s painful racial legacy lives on in health-care inequality.
Dec 17, 2018 / Michelle Chen