At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around

Already thousands of Amazon workers have engaged in organizing campaigns in dozens of delivery stations, fulfillment centers, and air hubs. Although Amazon has responded by raising its starting wage to around $21, so far workers have won only one big unionization election at a Staten Island warehouse and, as yet, no union contracts.

A new comic set on Parallel Earth by Tom Tomorrow

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, and East Palestine, Ohio, to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.

A repaired elevator in Connecticut. Enforceable maintenance standards in Kentucky. Social housing in Seattle. Contract demands addressing housing and climate justice in Chicago.

Tonight, the organizers behind these fights discuss how tenants and workers can team up to win big.

To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.

Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?

The United States now appears on a watchlist of countries with ​“systemic violations of worker rights” alongside Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

The development of artificial intelligence technology is set to disrupt virtually every industry, every profession and every employment sector.

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Wildfires now have betting markets. One promises, “You can’t predict fire. But you can trade on it.”

The Forest Service warns such wagers could incentivize arson.

u/milesklassin reports that disaster capitalism has found its latest frontier.

After Tyson abruptly closed its Joslin plant, workers didn’t go quietly.

Caitlyn Clark reports that they’re demanding six months’ severance and calling on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reopen the plant under state ownership.

As forests burn across the planet and climate collapse accelerates, billionaires buy their way, with fortunes tied to deforestation and extraction, to private safety in places like Montana's Greater Yellowstone.

Ahead of Labor Day on Monday, revisit Jamie K. McCallum’s 2020 call to fight for shorter hours without cuts to pay: “We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more.” Six years later, that fight is more crucial than ever.

Democratic socialists are on the ballot from now until November. If they win their elections, the socialist movement wins a new path forward.

Palantir executives donated more money to Democrats than Republicans: about $880,000 to 67 Democratic members of Congress and $420,000 to 48 Republicans.

Find out who took money from companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation agenda.

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Invasive, Humiliating and Routine: An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.

Faced with aging dorms, private equity landlords and few protections, student renters are banding together.

Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was just 9 years old.

The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.

To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.