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
New Jersey Exposed One of Corporate America’s Favorite Schemes New Jersey Exposed One of Corporate America’s Favorite Schemes
A state investigation revealed how companies use empty threats to pry money from local governments.
Apr 19, 2019 / Pat Garofalo
Israel Was Built on the Backs of Palestinian Laborers Israel Was Built on the Backs of Palestinian Laborers
Marginalized Arab workers have always done the physical work of building the Jewish “national home.”
Apr 19, 2019 / Andrew Ross
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
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Might Create a Revolution Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Might Create a Revolution
Just as Reagan and Thatcher rose together, perhaps so too will Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.
Apr 12, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage
Women Will Face Disproportionately Negative Consequences from AI Women Will Face Disproportionately Negative Consequences from AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our economy, making it more important than ever to empower the most vulnerable workers
Apr 12, 2019 / Michelle Chen
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
Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos
The New Me and other recent novels use millennial tropes as shortcuts to generational fatigue.
Apr 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Bloom
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