Read This Before You Sign Any Contract Read This Before You Sign Any Contract
Buried in the legal language of the contracts we all sign for jobs, credit cards, and more are clauses that effectively curtail our constitutional rights.
Mar 2, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Some Good News in the Fight for 15 Some Good News in the Fight for 15
The highest labor board in the country just confirmed fast-food workers’ right to organize.
Mar 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain
And the lengths that Alliance College-Ready Public Schools will go to stop it.
Mar 1, 2016 / George Joseph
Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling Standardized Tests Are a New Glass Ceiling
Women do better in class and worse on tests—and there are consequences.
Mar 1, 2016 / Feature / Andrew Hacker
Construction Is Dangerous Work Construction Is Dangerous Work
The construction industry accounts for only 4 percent of New York’s jobs but a full fifth of the state’s occupational deaths.
Feb 26, 2016 / Michelle Chen
My Life as a Tour-Bus Driver in LA My Life as a Tour-Bus Driver in LA
It sent me right back to The Day of the Locust—the masses ultimately want to cannibalize their celebrity gods.
Feb 25, 2016 / Editorial / Mike Davis
Amputated Hands and Torn Fingers: The Meat-Processing Industry’s Horrifying Injuries Amputated Hands and Torn Fingers: The Meat-Processing Industry’s Horrifying Injuries
When a worker is seen as nothing more than a part on an assembly line, who cares if they break?
Feb 24, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016 The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016
The challenge for any Democratic candidate is to learn—and learn fast—that he or she must be the candidate of fundamental change, not the candidate of continuity.
Feb 23, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congress Has Only Now Banned Slave Labor in US Imports Congress Has Only Now Banned Slave Labor in US Imports
Congress just passed legislation to close a loophole that’s allowed Americans to import slave-made goods for decades.
Feb 23, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Drug That Makes the Taliban Possible The Drug That Makes the Taliban Possible
Until Washington deals with Afghanistan’s economic dependence on opium, the Taliban aren’t going anywhere.
Feb 22, 2016 / Alfred McCoy