Labor

RA University Union

Your College RA Deserves a Union Your College RA Deserves a Union

Resident Advisers are workers and should demand employment status, union recognition, and fair wages. Universities cannot function without them.

Oct 28, 2022 / StudentNation / Ava Young-Stoner

Members of NYU’s Adjunct Faculty union march near Union Square. In the photo, one member holds a sign reading

Queering the Labor Movement Queering the Labor Movement

Unions should draw lessons from queer activism about how to sustainably, even joyfully build power.

Oct 26, 2022 / Anne Balay

Mike Davis.

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022

A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.

Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly. Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

The Biden administration’s victories aren’t boosting Democrats’ chances next month.

Oct 25, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Democratic Socialists of America

Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System

YDSA, the youth section of the largest socialist organization in the country, is tired of working within the Democratic Party. Can they create an alternative?

Oct 25, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Liz Truss

Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives

Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.

Oct 21, 2022 / Gary Younge

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Abortion and extremism have made the midterms a neck-and-neck race—but the party is still missing an economic message.

Oct 21, 2022 / Jeet Heer for The Nation

Now-former Prime Minister Liz Truss is candidly pictured leaving 10 Downing Street.

Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes

As jaws drop around the world over the resignation of the UK’s shortest-lived prime minister, life here is getting considerably worse by the day.

Oct 20, 2022 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

West Coast Showdown: The Organizer Versus the Oligarch

West Coast Showdown: The Organizer Versus the Oligarch West Coast Showdown: The Organizer Versus the Oligarch

Karen Bass, Rick Caruso, and the race for mayor of Los Angeles.

Oct 20, 2022 / Peter Dreier

The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement

The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement

Kim Kelly’s survey of labor organizing in America—telling the stories of workers on the margins, from miners to sex workers—offers hope and inspiration for working-class victories ...

Oct 20, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nick Juravich

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