Economy

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Workers learn governing power through high-participation negotiations. That’s also how they can get employers to the table.

Mar 4, 2023 / Column / Jane McAlevey

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. Leo is an Executive Vice President with the Federalist Society and a confidant of President Trump.

Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze

The powerful right-wing organization faces serious conflict-of-interest allegations.

Mar 3, 2023 / Jeet Heer

People carry representations of ballot boxes on their heads during a march in Mexico City on March 21st, 2021. The demonstration was held to protest the proposed Electoral Reform presented by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Protests Against AMLO’s Reforms Reveal the Strongholds of Mexico’s Ancien Régime Protests Against AMLO’s Reforms Reveal the Strongholds of Mexico’s Ancien Régime

The so-called “defense of the INE” has become the rallying cry of an opposition incapable of winning broad public support.

Mar 3, 2023 / José Luis Granados Ceja

Chris Smalls holds a megaphone leading Starbucks and Amazon labor day protest

Should the Labor Movement Prioritize the Push for Sectoral Bargaining? Should the Labor Movement Prioritize the Push for Sectoral Bargaining?

Larry Cohen argues that the labor movement should seek power not solely in individual workplaces but in entire industries, while Eric Blanc writes that the priority should be union...

Mar 3, 2023 / The Debate / Larry Cohen and Eric Blanc

Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidates Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell, and Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz

“This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race “This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race

The race for Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice has quickly become the most important election of the year.

Mar 3, 2023 / John Nichols for The Nation

President Joe Biden tours the TSMC semiconductor facility in Phoenix, Ariz.

The CHIPS Plan to Revive American Manufacturing The CHIPS Plan to Revive American Manufacturing

A Biden administration initiative to bolster the semiconductor sector could supply the basis for a new industrial policy.

Mar 2, 2023 / Todd N. Tucker and Lenore Palladino

Rupert Murdoch in 2019

Rupert Murdoch Admits That Fox Pushed Trump’s Election Lies for Profit Rupert Murdoch Admits That Fox Pushed Trump’s Election Lies for Profit

An explosive new filing in the Dominion lawsuit shows that the News Corp head knew the ex-president’s 2020 claims were false but kept peddling them to keep ratings up.

Feb 28, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Sara Nelson addresses demonstrators

Sara Nelson Could Be the Greatest Labor Secretary Since the New Deal Sara Nelson Could Be the Greatest Labor Secretary Since the New Deal

The demand for a fearless labor secretary is as great now as it was in the 1930s, and Nelson is more than ready to meet the moment.

Feb 28, 2023 / John Nichols

Protesters blocking traffic

Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis

Welcome to America’s emerging predator state.

Feb 28, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Image of a pipeline crossing tundra

Why More Alaskans Aren’t Fighting a Huge Potential Oil Project on the North Slope Why More Alaskans Aren’t Fighting a Huge Potential Oil Project on the North Slope

Alaska residents are living in an impossible situation: The state depends on oil to sustain itself—and that economy is simultaneously wreaking permanent damage on both the Arctic a...

Feb 28, 2023 / Madeline Ostrander

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