Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election? Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election?
Lessons from Chile’s uprising—and from the 2000 Florida recount fight.
Oct 30, 2020 / Jane McAlevey
For Persian Gulf Migrant Workers, the Pandemic Has Amplified Systemic Discrimination For Persian Gulf Migrant Workers, the Pandemic Has Amplified Systemic Discrimination
Trapped in crowded, unsafe accommodations with little access to health care, millions have been abruptly deprived of income.
Oct 30, 2020 / Sarah Aziza
We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms
Challenging the right wing’s cold war agenda means highlighting the Uighur re-education camps’ links to counterterrorism and global capital.
Oct 28, 2020 / A. Liu
Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers
The pandemic has exacerbated the cruel inequities of the US economy.
Oct 27, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag. Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag.
Too many Democrats are missing on an issue fundamental to farmers: the consolidation of the agriculture sector.
Oct 27, 2020 / Brian Barth
Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab
An executive order establishing new hiring and firing practices will, if he is reelected, give him extraordinary control over almost the entire civil service.
Oct 27, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
The Very Human Labor That Powers Artificial Intelligence The Very Human Labor That Powers Artificial Intelligence
Crowd-working platforms obscure—and profit from—the tedious human labor behind the digital age’s shiny successes.
Oct 27, 2020 / Arvind Dilawar
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Fewer and fewer reporters cover the local institutions whose decisions most directly affect their neighbors’ lives.
Oct 26, 2020 / Gwen Florio
Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey
The economist predicted that America would be hit harder than our peers by the Covid pandemic because we don’t have national paid leave.
Oct 26, 2020 / Bryce Covert