Labor Rights for All: The Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery Labor Rights for All: The Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery
The domestic workers’ rights movement offers powerful lessons for the broader fight against forced labor, trafficking and servitude.
Nov 7, 2013 / Nisha Varia and Foreign Policy In Focus
The Scott Walker Effect: Helping Democrats Win and Republicans Lose The Scott Walker Effect: Helping Democrats Win and Republicans Lose
The Wisconsin governor wants to be the GOP presidential nominee. But he had a lousy 2013 Election Day.
Nov 7, 2013 / John Nichols
Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed For Life Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed For Life
People like Luis Rivera are being locked out of the formal workforce forever thanks to one youthful mistake.
Nov 6, 2013 / Feature / Kai Wright
This Week in Poverty: How to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years This Week in Poverty: How to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years
The Half in Ten campaign lays out a path to dramatically reduce poverty—but it will require a real, sustained and disruptive fight to acheive it.
Nov 4, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
How States Taken Over by the GOP in 2010 Have Been Quietly Screwing Over the American Worker How States Taken Over by the GOP in 2010 Have Been Quietly Screwing Over the American Worker
A broad campaign to strip employees of their rights is being fueled by corporate cash and conservative state lawmakers.
Oct 31, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Writing as Woman’s Work Writing as Woman’s Work
The devaluation of “content” is bad for readers and for democracy.
Oct 30, 2013 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Don’t Be Fooled: Flexible Scheduling Is No Cure for the Workplace Gender Divide Don’t Be Fooled: Flexible Scheduling Is No Cure for the Workplace Gender Divide
Flexible scheduling may do more harm than good as it reinforces stereotypical gender roles.
Oct 25, 2013 / Bryce Covert
Students Demand College-Logo Brands Join Fire and Safety Agreement Students Demand College-Logo Brands Join Fire and Safety Agreement
Three out of the four largest industrial disasters in the history of the garment industry have occurred in the past year alone.
Oct 24, 2013 / StudentNation / Garrett Shishido Strain and StudentNation
ESPN Is Wrong: Grambling State Isn’t the First College Team to Fight Back ESPN Is Wrong: Grambling State Isn’t the First College Team to Fight Back
There’s a long history of players banding together for better playing conditions.
Oct 21, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Why They Refused to Play: Read the Grievance Letter of the Grambling State Tigers Football Team Why They Refused to Play: Read the Grievance Letter of the Grambling State Tigers Football Team
The grievance letter sent out by the Grambling State Tigers football team reveals a locker room too dangerous to call home.
Oct 21, 2013 / Dave Zirin