Antifascism After Gaza
By Alberto Toscano Over the past few years, discussions of fascism in the United States have, unsurprisingly, followed an electoral cadence, focused more on the presidency of Donald Trump past and possibly future—than on the…
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Republicans’ Project 2025
A Multi-Pronged Attack on Workers By Rebecca Gordon Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained…
National Labor Board Under Corporate Attack
By Kate Andrias Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated U.S. labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several…
New ‘Independent Contractor ’ Rule
By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress and unions were among those applauding in early January as the U.S. Department of Labor announced its final rule to provide guidance on when employers can treat workers as…
A Ship Crashed Into a Baltimore Bridge… and
Demolished Lies About Immigration Commentary by Will Bunch From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working. The youngest of eight children,…
10 Ways to Reshape Immigration Policy
By Heidi Altman For too long, extremist lawmakers and commentators have shaped the immigration debate through misinformation and rhetoric that demonizes people seeking safety and a better life. The result is a punitive, enforcement-oriented approach…
California’s Civil Grand Juries
The last of their kind in the nation By Katy St. Clair There is a tenet of American democracy that has fallen by the wayside in most every state except for one: California. It’s the…
Educating for Democracy
By Michael Schwalbe The latest case of right-wing Republican meddling in the curriculum of North Carolina’s public universities comes in the form of a proposed requirement, engineered by the political appointees who constitute the UNC…
Bordering on the Ridiculous
Cynical hypocrisy on immigration policy Commentary by Rob Schofield As with so many other problems afflicting modern America—the climate emergency, economic inequality, the federal debt, gun violence, racism, our threadbare public education system—there’s plenty of…
How Much of Trump’s Support Is Due to Racism?
Commentary by Dan Froomkin There is one theory that fully explains the massive support that Trump continues to get among the Republican voting base: That they’re racist. To be clear, this is a theory, not…