How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement
The journey one of the first domestic workers’ groups in New York attests to the power of grassroots labor activism and the hurdles that come with it.
Jul 3, 2014 / Michelle Chen
On This Fourth of July, Meet Your Unpatriotic Corporations On This Fourth of July, Meet Your Unpatriotic Corporations
Walgreens wants to use tax loopholes to take $4 billion out of taxpayers’ pockets. And that’s just the beginning.
Jul 3, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How New York Real Estate Became a Dumping Ground for the World’s Dirty Money How New York Real Estate Became a Dumping Ground for the World’s Dirty Money
Shady magnates and corrupt politicians from all over the globe are stashing their ill-gotten wealth in luxurious Manhattan apartments.
Jul 3, 2014 / Michael Hudson, Ionuț Stănescu, and Sam Adler-Bell
How John Maynard Keynes Can Save the Arab Spring How John Maynard Keynes Can Save the Arab Spring
With secular autocrats and rigid Islamists equally discredited in the Arab world, the space is wide open for progressive democrats to save the Arab Spring.
Jul 2, 2014 / Richard Javad Heydarian and Foreign Policy In Focus
After ‘Harris v. Quinn’: The State of Our Unions After ‘Harris v. Quinn’: The State of Our Unions
After one of Supreme Court’s most anti-union rulings in recent years, is there still time for organized labor to save itself?
Jul 2, 2014 / Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein, Joel Rogers, Joshua Freeman, and Jane McAlevey
The Saga of Christie, Samson and the American Dream Megamall: Part II The Saga of Christie, Samson and the American Dream Megamall: Part II
How the boys from New Jersey are trying to pay for it all—at taxpayer expense.
Jul 2, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
Low-Wage Workers’ Newest Ally Is a Washington Bureaucrat Low-Wage Workers’ Newest Ally Is a Washington Bureaucrat
“Working people have experienced—for a long time—the diminishment of their voice,” says David Weil, the new director of the Wage and Hour Division at the De...
Jul 1, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Wage Theft, Dangerous Conditions and Discrimination: Inside New York’s Food Industry Wage Theft, Dangerous Conditions and Discrimination: Inside New York’s Food Industry
A new report reveals the vast majority of workers are immigrants and people of color who earn about $8 less than the industry average.
Jul 1, 2014 / Michelle Chen
The Saga of Christie, Samson and the American Dream Megamall: Part I The Saga of Christie, Samson and the American Dream Megamall: Part I
Yet another multibillion-dollar conflict-of-interest tangle involving the New Jersey governor and the former chairman of the Port Authority.
Jul 1, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
Court Allows Unions to Keep Collecting Dues From Workers They Represent—for Now Court Allows Unions to Keep Collecting Dues From Workers They Represent—for Now
A 5-4 ruling threatens more assaults on labor rights.
Jun 30, 2014 / John Nichols