After a North Carolina Election Loss, Amazon Union Organizers Must Think Bigger, Bolder After a North Carolina Election Loss, Amazon Union Organizers Must Think Bigger, Bolder
Local organizers built a multiracial, multigenerational union with grassroots energy and tenacity. But Amazon is too big to beat through site-by-site organizing and striking.
Feb 17, 2025 / Jonathan Rosenblum
Mass Deportations Aren’t Just Evil. They’re Also Terrible Economics. Mass Deportations Aren’t Just Evil. They’re Also Terrible Economics.
Immigrants don’t steal citizens’ jobs and wages. They grow the economy for all.
Feb 14, 2025 / Column / Bryce Covert
To Go Big Is to Keep It Simple To Go Big Is to Keep It Simple
Reinventing the Democrats as a working-class party.
Feb 13, 2025 / Thomas Geoghegan
How Amazon Is Taking Its Union-Busting to New Heights How Amazon Is Taking Its Union-Busting to New Heights
Organizers describe fear tactics, amped-up security, and daily town halls as workers vote on whether to unionize.
Feb 13, 2025 / Ella Fanger
Why DeepSeek’s Surprise Breakthrough Shouldn’t Have Come as a Surprise Why DeepSeek’s Surprise Breakthrough Shouldn’t Have Come as a Surprise
While America was busy with stock buybacks and quarterly profits, China spent decades building an integrated system linking research, manufacturing, and innovation.
Jan 30, 2025 / Corbin Trent
REI Sells the Great Outdoors While Workers Breathe Chemicals in a Windowless Basement REI Sells the Great Outdoors While Workers Breathe Chemicals in a Windowless Basement
Ski shop workers at an REI in New York City went on strike after the company took away their respirators.
Jan 28, 2025 / Kiera Feldman
Biden Was a Remarkably Consequential One-Term President Biden Was a Remarkably Consequential One-Term President
Inheriting a post-pandemic economy, Biden orchestrated the best recovery in the industrial world.
Jan 23, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought
New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.
Jan 22, 2025 / Ann Larson
The Labor Crisis Putting People With Disabilities at Risk The Labor Crisis Putting People With Disabilities at Risk
The workers who care for people with disabilities are underpaid, overwhelmed, and increasingly leaving the field. Advocates say action is desperately needed to stem the tide.
Jan 10, 2025 / Isabel Ruehl
Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations! Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations!
It’s time to challenge the Democrats’ “business model.”
Jan 7, 2025 / Richard Eskow