Alleged Free Speech Champions Are Campaigning Against Speech They Don’t Like Alleged Free Speech Champions Are Campaigning Against Speech They Don’t Like
Prominent Republicans are attacking anyone who insists on describing who the late Charlie Kirk and his movement really were, even trying to get them fired.
Sep 15, 2025 / Joan Walsh
“There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson “There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson
The international president of the Association of Flight Attendants explains how labor solidarity can “set the agenda and make things better.”
Sep 1, 2025 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame
In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.
Sep 1, 2025 / Peter Dreier
Trump’s War on Workers Trump’s War on Workers
Buried beneath the bluster is a systematic assault on labor.
Aug 29, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens
Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table
As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universitie...
Aug 21, 2025 / StudentNation / Amann Mahajan
Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It
The people who do the dirty work of killing and processing animals hold up our food system. Trump is putting them in danger.
Aug 20, 2025 / Alice Driver
Monuments to Migration and Labor Monuments to Migration and Labor
In the face of escalating ICE raids, how can we honor and give voice to immigrant laborers?
Aug 19, 2025 / Ánh Adams and Andy Urban
How Seattle’s Katie Wilson Launched Her Mayoral Campaign as a Social Movement How Seattle’s Katie Wilson Launched Her Mayoral Campaign as a Social Movement
The precariat is rising.
Aug 12, 2025 / John Burbank
The Trump Economy? Some Reagan Parallels The Trump Economy? Some Reagan Parallels
In contrast with the now sober-seeming Reaganites, Trump has taken credit for the economy from day one.
Aug 7, 2025 / James K. Galbraith
Bringing Back Stagflation, Lower Growth, and Higher Prices Bringing Back Stagflation, Lower Growth, and Higher Prices
When Trump talks of turning the economy around, he speaks the truth—he just gets the direction of change wrong.
Aug 1, 2025 / Dean Baker