Obama’s Last State of the Union: Wonderful Rhetoric, Messy Realities Obama’s Last State of the Union: Wonderful Rhetoric, Messy Realities
He hit all the right notes, but wouldn’t it have been wonderful if he could have used the past tense to describe the crisis of inequality?
Jan 13, 2016 / Sasha Abramsky
High-Tech Manufacturing’s Disposable Workers High-Tech Manufacturing’s Disposable Workers
The electronics industry is poisoning the workers who make our shiny gadgets.
Jan 13, 2016 / Michelle Chen
MoveOn Endorses Sanders After He Wins 79 Percent Support in Member Vote MoveOn Endorses Sanders After He Wins 79 Percent Support in Member Vote
The progressive group says it will “mobilize aggressively” for the Vermonter in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Jan 12, 2016 / John Nichols
Graduate Students at Private Universities Could Soon Have the Right to Unionize Graduate Students at Private Universities Could Soon Have the Right to Unionize
A pending NLRB case could reverse 12 years of labor limbo for student workers at private institutions.
Jan 12, 2016 / Michelle Chen
LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Economic Forum LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Economic Forum
Tune in this Saturday for a live conversation featuring Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley.
Jan 8, 2016 / The Nation
Were 180 Workers Fired Over Prayer Breaks? Were 180 Workers Fired Over Prayer Breaks?
At a Cargill plant in Colorado, religious liberty has come up against the hard requirements of profitability.
Jan 8, 2016 / Michelle Chen
What the Pathetic Case Against Rentboy.com Says About Sex Work What the Pathetic Case Against Rentboy.com Says About Sex Work
Without victims or allegations of trafficking or coercion, the case against Rentboy is particularly weak. It’s also drawn new groups into the movement to decriminalize sex work.
Jan 7, 2016 / Lisa Duggan
This Supreme Court Case Could Make All Public Unions ‘Right to Work’ This Supreme Court Case Could Make All Public Unions ‘Right to Work’
The legal foundations of thousands of public-sector bargaining agreements could soon disappear.
Jan 7, 2016 / The Editors
This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like
In July, Emeryville, California, passed the highest city-wide minimum wage in the country. Here’s how workers’ lives changed—and didn’t.
Jan 7, 2016 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson
Twitter’s White-People Problem Twitter’s White-People Problem
Will the company become a leader in reforming its workforce, or a case study for how the tech industry’s relentless whiteness destroys innovation, too?
Jan 6, 2016 / Donovan X. Ramsey