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
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
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
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
Inside One of the Largest Student Worker Strikes Ever Inside One of the Largest Student Worker Strikes Ever
Around 4,000 members of the University of Oregon Student Workers went on strike in April, winning the first contract that covers every undergraduate worker at a public university....
Jul 1, 2025 / StudentNation / Andrew Berka
The Math That Gave Us Trump The Math That Gave Us Trump
The party that built the New Deal now manages the raw deal. But there’s hope.
Jun 24, 2025 / Corbin Trent
How the White House’s War on the Job Corps Is Hurting Trump Country How the White House’s War on the Job Corps Is Hurting Trump Country
An abrupt Labor Department order to shutter 99 Job Corps campuses across the country is devastating for at-risk trainees and local economies.
Jun 10, 2025 / Deb Vanasse
So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025. So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025.
The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate and sustainability, international aid, public service, and the sciences
May 29, 2025 / Lawrence Lanahan
Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement? Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement?
A threatened judiciary cannot rely on cops controlled by the White House.
May 26, 2025 / Jeet Heer
The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying
The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise.
May 23, 2025 / Jeet Heer