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
The Next American Revolution The Next American Revolution
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech condemning the Vietnam War, we must remember that a nation founded in revolution must always remain open to reassessment in or...
Apr 3, 2019 / Editorial / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Declining Federal Oversight of Workplace Safety Could Have Fatal Consequences Declining Federal Oversight of Workplace Safety Could Have Fatal Consequences
A drop in federal safety inspectors has coincided with an increase in deaths in workplaces monitored by OSHA.
Mar 27, 2019 / Michelle Chen
Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm
After years of struggling through summer heat and wildfire smoke, farmers in Washington are building their own, cooperatively run, future.
Mar 27, 2019 / Taking Heat / Audrea Lim
More Than 90 Percent of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies More Than 90 Percent of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies
The real risks from chemicals in our food—for farmworkers and children, in particular—are being ignored.
Mar 21, 2019 / Liza Gross
What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day
Over the last year, women’s rights took one step back, and two steps forward.
Mar 8, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Does the NBA Have a Mental-Health Crisis on Its Hands? Does the NBA Have a Mental-Health Crisis on Its Hands?
Depression and anxiety among players is not something to scoff at or shame. It’s an objective fact, and a real product of their jobs.
Mar 7, 2019 / Dave Zirin
How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights
This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.
Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes
Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike
Democrats and progressives need to focus on what the United Electrical union calls the “first major US manufacturing strike of the Trump era.”
Feb 26, 2019 / John Nichols
Denver Students Take the Lead as Teachers Strike Denver Students Take the Lead as Teachers Strike
Working-class students of color are mobilizing to support their striking teachers and against privatizing district leaders.
Feb 12, 2019 / StudentNation / Eric Blanc