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April 15, 2016
David Dayen
The Verizon Strike Signals a Larger Economic Battle
As profits increasingly flow to the top, workers have had enough.
April 6, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
A coal executive is going to jail over West Virginia mine disaster.
March 29, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Antonin Scalia’s death has already dramatically tilted the Supreme Court to the left.
February 19, 2016
Simon Lazarus
How John Roberts Can Save the Supreme Court
Senate Republicans plan to paralyze the nomination process. Here's a way forward for the chief justice this year.
January 25, 2016
Max Rivlin-Nadler
The Sharing Economy Is Labor’s Next Hope
January 11, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Public Sector Unions
A case going to oral arguments today will have implications far beyond that of free speech.
December 31, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Blood gushes down the elevator doors of a Carnival cruise ship as a worker is killed on the job.
December 31, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Lawsuit claims Amherst teaching assistants were pressured to sleep with students to boost enrollment in the Spanish department.
December 22, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
New Republic: Best of 2015
December 17, 2015
Meaghan Murphy
Hillary Clinton is crushing Bernie Sanders in the labor endorsement race by 13 million members.
December 4, 2015
MagazineBrian Beutler
Trump and the “Low-Skilled” Labor Myth
Sorry, elite conservatives: Whites who oppose immigration are not principally motivated by economic concerns.
November 13, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why Is Hillary Doing So Well With Unions?
Despite having a democratic socialist in the race, some big unions are sticking with Clinton.
November 3, 2015
Maggie Doherty
The Vanished World of Stoner
A young professor reflects on John Williams’s cult novel on its 50th anniversary.
October 5, 2015
David Peetz
Why CEOs Won’t Stop Earning Such High Salaries Anytime Soon
September 8, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Labor Movement Needs to Take a Side on Criminal Justice Reform
September 1, 2015
Steven Cohen
How Digital Media Unionization Can—and Can’t—Strengthen the Labor Movement
August 13, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous
Why do doctors and patients insist on using electronic fetal monitoring?
July 13, 2015
Heath W. Carter
The Church of Organized Labor
Scott Walker's evangelical faith and union-busting do not go hand in hand
June 30, 2015
Jennifer Sky
Child Models Deserve Worker Protections, Too
June 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Rand Paul Somehow Uses the Gay Marriage Ruling to Attack Labor Laws

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