Chicago Teachers Are Fighting for Their Students’ Futures Chicago Teachers Are Fighting for Their Students’ Futures
Over 35,000 workers could be on the picket line on October 17, demanding the resources to make their schools succeed.
Oct 15, 2019 / Alan Maass
Chicago’s Teachers Are Making History. Again. Chicago’s Teachers Are Making History. Again.
Rank-and-file workers are finally taking back their unions, and strikes are spreading across the country as a result.
Oct 15, 2019 / Jane McAlevey
#MeToo Is a Story of Corruption #MeToo Is a Story of Corruption
The Weinstein investigation ignited a movement because it exposed the vulnerability that millions of working women face.
Oct 15, 2019 / Julie Kohler
Our Maniac in the White House: Tales of Woe and Resistance Our Maniac in the White House: Tales of Woe and Resistance
Trump is inflicting enormous damage with his great and unmatched idiocy. But California continues to dance to its own tune, with a raft of progressive legislation.
Oct 11, 2019 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky
Washington’s Struggling Medical Residents Need a Raise Washington’s Struggling Medical Residents Need a Raise
How bullying, depression, debt, and 90-hour weeks pushed members of the University of Washington Housestaff Association to walk out of the job.
Oct 9, 2019 / Jennifer Bernstein
A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players
How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.
Oct 8, 2019 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
Against the Pundits’ Class Against the Pundits’ Class
In the media imaginary, working-class people are reduced to stereotypes, while actual workers go unheard. But some of them talk back.
Oct 4, 2019 / Maximillian Alvarez
Beneath Amitav Ghosh’s Gentle Tone Smolders a Polemical Fire Beneath Amitav Ghosh’s Gentle Tone Smolders a Polemical Fire
The author of Gun Island derides the liberal moralizing of the refugee crisis.
Oct 4, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Kanishk Tharoor
Trump Is Revving Up the Attack on Workers’ Rights Trump Is Revving Up the Attack on Workers’ Rights
This faux populist is all about enriching corporations and the wealthy at the expense of workers and consumers—but labor is fighting back, and union popularity is at near-record hi...
Sep 24, 2019 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky
The Path to Climate Justice Runs Through the UAW Strike The Path to Climate Justice Runs Through the UAW Strike
During Climate Week, why not show we can have economic and environmental justice?
Sep 23, 2019 / Jane McAlevey