As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose.
In his quietly devastating book Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge argues that all Americans, not just the ones who pull the trigger, are complicit in gun violence.
Ronan Burtenshaw joins us to discuss last week’s election upset and what’s next for the UK left.
Georgia Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel’s admission that she doesn’t support a “livable wage” is only a candid statement of the mainstream GOP position.
Javier Valdez was the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year. What will it take for his killers to see justice?
How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?
Labour fared much better in Thursday’s election than many had predicted—myself included. But to win decisively in future, it still has work to do.
Putting both the Conservatives and the pundit class to shame, Labour’s impressive gains in yesterday’s election show that a left alternative is still possible.
Since the Great Recession, Karl Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. But as a new biography of him suggests, Polanyi himself is an uneasy fit as spokesman for any specific social order.
Bob Master of CWA joins us to talk about AT&T workers’ three-day strike. Plus: we hear from the Dominican Republic about call center workers organizing in solidarity with their U.S. counterparts.
Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.
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