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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Kim Kelly
Labor
Feature
Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.
Kari Lydersen
Interview
The Authoritarian State in Miniature
A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.
Shane Burley
Why Trump's Tariffs Are a Losing Bet to Keep China at Bay and Remake the Global Order
Trump's plans around tariffs and annexation resemble a new Monroe Doctrine, but it’s a recipe that only leads to economic collapse—and war.
Tobita Chow
Columnists
Unions Without Strikes
Hamilton Nolan
Elon Musk's DOGE Targets Labor Department
Kim Kelly
The Movement Supporting Public Employees Is Rising
Sarah Jaffe
Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents
Adam Johnson
In the Face of Overwhelm
Asha Ransby-Sporn
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Palestine
"It Is Neither Death, Nor Suicide"
Gaza’s Declaration of Life—and Living
Jehad Abusalim
Interview
Culture
Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love
Aina Marzia
Feature
Interview
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika
Dispatch
Environmentalists and Community Members Band Together Against Buc-ee's
Lewis Raven Wallace
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A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution
The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.
Maximillian Alvarez
Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program
In an internal FEMA memo, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the government’s largest climate adaptation initiative.
Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle
"You Are Not Welcome Here:" DHS Plans to Monitor Immigrants' Social Media
Those deemed to have “antisemitic activity” online could be denied green cards and other immigration clearances.
Sharon Zhang
PALESTINE
Palestine
Election 2024
Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond
A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.
Nashwa Bawab
Labor
Palestine
Investigation
U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
Viewpoint
Palestine
School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.
Bill Bigelow
Viewpoint
Palestine
A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza
Yousef Aljamal
Labor
Interview
Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon
Sarah Lazare
Translations
Labor
Dispatch
Spanish
En Español
“No abran la puerta”: Cómo Chicago está frustrando la campaña de miedo de ICE
Sarah Lazare and Rebecca Burns
Labor
Viewpoint
En Español
Presidente de la UAW: El Primero de Mayo De 2028 Podría Transformar el Movimiento Sindical—y el Mundo
Shawn Fain
Feature
Palestine
التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول
إيمان عبد الهادي
Feature
Wasteland Warriors
“I showed up for East Palestine because I realized we are not alone.”
Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple
Investigative Reports
Investigation
Goodman Institute
The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders
Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.
Alessandra Bergamin
Feature
Election 2024
Cover Story
The War on Protest Is Here
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Adam Federman
Working In These Times
National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Labor
Viewpoint
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Labor
Interview
Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.
Nick French
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Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
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Culture
Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love
An exclusive conversation with the bestselling author of Martyr! on the moral crises we're facing.
Aina Marzia
Culture
Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
Eve L. Ewing
Culture
Sheriffs Already Have Too Much Power. Who Will Stop Them Now?
Raina Lipsitz
Rural America In These Times
Republicans Will Weaponize Rural Suffering as Long as Democrats Ignore It
JD Vance is a poser, but he’s telling a dangerously compelling story about rural America that Democrats are doing nothing to defuse.
Joseph Bullington
Rural America
How Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate Tribal Health Systems
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
Rural America
“There’s Going To Be Firefighters that Die Because of This, There Will Be Communities that Burn”
Alex Brown
Columnists
Julie Su Is Still Optimistic About the Future of Labor
Kim Kelly
Land of the Unfree?
Alberto Toscano
Federal Workers Rise up Against Musk, Trump and Drastic Cuts
Sarah Jaffe
Gaping at the Cult of Trump
Hamilton Nolan
What Working People's Struggles to Survive The Great Depression Can Teach Us Today
Maximillian Alvarez
“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk
Eman Abdelhadi
Progressives Should Reject the DOGE Scam
Adam Johnson
Bring Chicago Home is Still on the Ballot Despite Real Estate Industry's Legal Challenge
Asha Ransby-Sporn
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