For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.
Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”
Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on the brink of rebellion.
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
A preview of our Fall 2021 issue.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
How did Occupy change the labor movement? And what lessons might it still hold for unions struggling to find their footing in an ever more crisis-prone world?
What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?
As hopes for ambitious climate policy fade, Joe Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, talks about why we must decarbonize the economy while protecting workers.
William F. Buckley Jr. biographer Sam Tanenhaus digs into the National Review founder’s 1965 run for mayor of New York City.
Amelia Horgan’s new book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, asks what work is, why it sucks, and what we can do to change it.
As infections from the Delta variant rise, so do concerns among nail salon workers about customers who do not wear masks.
Four short essays by Carla Murphy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Touré F. Reed, and Anika Fassia and Tinselyn Simms.
A close look at what happens when corporations police themselves.
An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
