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Rutgers students and faculty hold signs at a picket

Rutgers Strikers Run the Table Rutgers Strikers Run the Table

Three faculty unions at Rutgers University in New Jersey have shown a way out of the crisis in higher education.

Apr 19, 2023 / Jonathan David

We Must Challenge the Bipartisan War Party

We Must Challenge the Bipartisan War Party We Must Challenge the Bipartisan War Party

Biden’s four-front global crusade against perceived enemies threatens our future.

Apr 19, 2023 / Jeff Faux

The Epidemic of School Shootings

The Epidemic of School Shootings The Epidemic of School Shootings

More than 300,000 students have experienced gun violence in their schools since the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999.

Apr 19, 2023 / The Nation

Triumphant ATU members with their signed petition

How Open Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules—Led to a Union Victory How Open Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules—Led to a Union Victory

In 2017, Kentucky became the most recent “right-to-work” state in the US. Which makes the recent victory by the Amalgamated Transit Union all the more significant.

Apr 19, 2023 / Column / Jane McAlevey

The Attack on Literacy

The Attack on Literacy The Attack on Literacy

Book banning spreads.

Apr 18, 2023 / OppArt / Dara Herman Zierlein

A woman in a crowd holds a sign reading

“I Felt That I Had Saved My Own Life”: A Polish Woman’s Harrowing Story of Illegal Abortion “I Felt That I Had Saved My Own Life”: A Polish Woman’s Harrowing Story of Illegal Abortion

Polish activist Justyna Wydrzyńska is the first woman in Europe to be convicted of “intent to aid” an abortion. For the first time, the woman she helped, Ania, tells the story of h...

Apr 18, 2023 / Rebecca Grant

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Letters From the May 1/8, 2023, Issue Letters From the May 1/8, 2023, Issue

A higher bar… Impeding our war machine…

Apr 18, 2023 / Our Readers

How Fran Drescher Went From TV Nanny to Union Boss

How Fran Drescher Went From TV Nanny to Union Boss How Fran Drescher Went From TV Nanny to Union Boss

Drescher was once network TV’s working-class darling—now, as head of SAG-AFTRA, does she have what it takes to marshal the collective power of a deeply divided union?

Apr 18, 2023 / Feature / Piper French

Then-Prince Charles in India, 1980.

The Ghosts of the British Empire The Ghosts of the British Empire

In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire's pieties and fictions persist to this day.

Apr 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Priya Satia

Man pours liquid into a bottle in front of a pile of bottles

Nothing Encapsulates the False Promise of Capitalism Like Plastic Nothing Encapsulates the False Promise of Capitalism Like Plastic

Individual good intentions can only carry us so far when the global recycling system is stacked in favor of the oil industry.

Apr 18, 2023 / Nanjala Nyabola

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