The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore
Social-justice teacher caucuses have emerged in cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Paul, and now they’re banding together to help those in Baltimore.
Jun 7, 2019 / Rachel M. Cohen
Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back
For the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, radical politics starts in the workplace.
May 10, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Sarah Jaffe
Where Did the South African Left Go Wrong? Where Did the South African Left Go Wrong?
The ANC has failed to tackle poverty and inequality—and will win the presidency anyway.
May 6, 2019 / Kenichi Serino
I Can’t Sleep Through All the Honking, and I’m Beeping Mad I Can’t Sleep Through All the Honking, and I’m Beeping Mad
Another reader asks how to maintain ties of affection amid leftist infighting.
May 3, 2019 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone
It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda
The failures of the education-reform movement have created an opportunity for the left. We need to seize it.
Apr 29, 2019 / Pedro Noguera
Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back. Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back.
Laid-off retail workers are demanding severance, labor protections—and an end to the Wall Street playbook of owning a company while hollowing it out.
Apr 23, 2019 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration
The little-known legal loophole rigs the game against working people, and this grassroots group of law students are working to combat it.
Apr 15, 2019 / StudentNation / Sejal Singh and Andre Manuel
The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga
Members of UAW Local 42 want collective-bargaining rights at the Volkswagen plant. Where better to debate about labor rights, unions and the future of work?
Apr 11, 2019 / John Nichols
Bernie Sanders Is Making Union Solidarity an Essential Theme of the 2020 Campaign Bernie Sanders Is Making Union Solidarity an Essential Theme of the 2020 Campaign
The senator is rallying with labor and proposing to upend “right to work” laws.
Apr 8, 2019 / John Nichols
‘Organize or Die’: Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement ‘Organize or Die’: Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement
The 28-year-old president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO puts international solidarity to work in South Dakota.
Mar 29, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Rebecca Zweig