Black Friday Strike Will Test the Power of High-Stakes Online Organizing Black Friday Strike Will Test the Power of High-Stakes Online Organizing
Will Facebook conversations mobilize workers to strike?
Nov 22, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
Josh Eidelson: Walmart Is a Pioneer in Unionbusting Josh Eidelson: Walmart Is a Pioneer in Unionbusting
If the Walmart workers can win, it will send a message to low-wage, anti-labor corporations everywhere.
Nov 21, 2012 / Press Room
An Anti-Poverty Thanksgiving An Anti-Poverty Thanksgiving
What some leaders in the fight against poverty are thinking about this Thanksgiving.
Nov 21, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
The Choice to End Poverty The Choice to End Poverty
A new report from the Half in Ten campaign demonstrates—once again—that we know what to do to dramatically reduce poverty. The question remains: Will we do it?
Nov 21, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Bernanke for Treasury Secretary? Bernanke for Treasury Secretary?
The Fed chairman has been making the case for jobless Americans that normally in the past is made most strenuously by liberal Democrats.
Nov 20, 2012 / William Greider
Even the IMF Agrees with Europe’s Anti-Austerity Protests Even the IMF Agrees with Europe’s Anti-Austerity Protests
You know you’re in trouble when the master of structural adjustment says enough is enough.
Nov 20, 2012 / Andy Robinson
Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Worker Group Alleges Walmart ‘Told Store-Level Management to Threaten Workers’ About Strikes Worker Group Alleges Walmart ‘Told Store-Level Management to Threaten Workers’ About Strikes
As Black Friday approaches, workers report “captive audience” meetings designed to discourage strikes.
Nov 20, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
I’m Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’ I’m Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’
If you get to the top, only to find that the voice hounding you with charges of inauthenticity is your own, what then?
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Occupy Walmart: Workers Plan Black Friday Protests Occupy Walmart: Workers Plan Black Friday Protests
Occupy Wall Street is showing solidarity with striking Walmart workers.
Nov 20, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny