Standing With Nurses Is a Feminist Project Standing With Nurses Is a Feminist Project
Nurses unions from 28 different countries are taking on governments and Big Pharma with a simple demand: Waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines, and end the pandemic now.
Dec 3, 2021 / Silvia Federici
Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy? Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy?
Perhaps the pandemic has given us an opportunity to rethink which goods are so “critical” that we’re willing to let other people risk their lives to provide them for us.
Dec 1, 2021 / Rebecca Gordon
Why We Made “Going for Broke” Why We Made “Going for Broke”
In this video roundtable, Laura Flanders joins Ray Suarez and Ann Larson to talk about our newest podcast.
Nov 19, 2021 / The Nation, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Laura Flanders
Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps
A key program in the Build Back Better Act, the Civilian Climate Corps has the potential to mobilize young voters for Democrats next year—assuming the bill survives.
Nov 19, 2021 / Matthew Miles Goodrich
I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget. I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget.
Limitless military spending doesn’t help workers like me. Green, union jobs do.
Nov 19, 2021 / David Story
Arizona Airport Workers Are Going on Strike Arizona Airport Workers Are Going on Strike
“This company is not respecting us and not respecting our union,” said one long-serving employee.
Nov 19, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky
Biden’s Progressive Vision Just Isn’t Enough Biden’s Progressive Vision Just Isn’t Enough
Progressivism once looked to the future; today, it’s stuck in the past.
Nov 19, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Only Democracy Can Save One of America’s Greatest Unions Only Democracy Can Save One of America’s Greatest Unions
We need strong unions more than ever, which means giving UAW members a real say in how their union is run.
Nov 18, 2021 / Liz Skeen
We Abandon Low-Income Voters at Our Peril We Abandon Low-Income Voters at Our Peril
The survival struggles of the poor and dispossessed have long been both a spark for social, political, and economic change in this country.
Nov 12, 2021 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
West Hollywood Just Won the Highest Minimum Wage in the Country West Hollywood Just Won the Highest Minimum Wage in the Country
The ordinance could—and should—serve as a template for wage protections and working conditions for low-wage workers across the country.
Nov 12, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky