Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care? Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care?
It’s the only protection workers have against corporate resistance to unionizing.
Aug 23, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator?
Hanna Bervoets’s novella We Had to Remove This Post attempts to get inside the mind of one the Internet’s frontline workers.
Aug 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Joanne McNeil
How to Kill a Rural Hospital How to Kill a Rural Hospital
In Gallup, New Mexico, doctors and community members are rallying to save Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital.
Aug 23, 2022 / Feature / Cecilia Nowell
Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence
Caught between a Russian past and a NATO future, the poorest country in the EU faces a political crisis—and a struggle over competing visions of national pride.
Aug 22, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem
The US territory gives pharmaceutical companies big tax breaks that could otherwise be invested in its communities, where the revenue is deeply needed.
Aug 19, 2022 / Julio López Varona
The Environmental Cost of Greed The Environmental Cost of Greed
Drought in the world.
Aug 19, 2022 / OppArt / Robin McCarthy
Trying to Keep the Roof on in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Trying to Keep the Roof on in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
While the petrochemical industry keeps blowing it off.
Aug 19, 2022 / Michael Esealuka
What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America
The human frailties that hinder enlistment are symptoms of something more sinister than a military lacking bodies.
Aug 17, 2022 / Andrea Mazzarino
Oakland’s Largest Homeless Camp Dodges the Bullet—for Now Oakland’s Largest Homeless Camp Dodges the Bullet—for Now
Under a freeway maze near a train yard, residents of Oakland’s largest and oldest encampment are being forced to leave. Where will they go?
Aug 17, 2022 / Feature / David Bacon
With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers
Gavin Newsom may have a chance to prove his commitment to the working class.
Aug 16, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel