2024 Is the Climate Election
Journalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…
Politics
The Tax Sharks Are Back
And They’re Coming for Your Home Commentary by Cory Doctorow One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of “conservativism,” and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin’s…
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…
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…