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Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

Learn to write professional op-eds and personal essays with Elizabeth Spiers, a contributing writer for The New York Times opinion section, former columnist at Fortune and Fast Company, and opinion co...

France’s first presidential debate on Thursday was hosted by employers’ group Medef. Entrepreneurs laughed when left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for wage raises, but he was deadly serious.

“Gary and Northwest Indiana are experiencing a Katrina moment.” We speak with residents and community leaders about the ongoing energy blackout in Gary, Indiana and the conditions that led to this avo...

Political pundits acting shocked by this are snide pricks.

25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can’t ignore now.

A short history of shopper radicalism in an era of monopoly power

The consequences of privatizing public information.

Ann Larson is the author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register. Her writing on ...

Republicans will mark up a bill tomorrow that would prohibit OSHA from issuing an effective workplace heat standard.

Today, Clancy speaks with Ann Larson, author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register. Ann shares what she learned after spending more...

A video that shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest inside a Salt Lake City home went viral this week. In it, agents restrain a middle-aged man and a teenager while a woman screams, “Get out of my house!”

Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...

New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.

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"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.

"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Randall Kennedy analyzes Harvard v. Trump, and Ann Larson explains work behind the grocery store checkstand.

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

Podcast Episode · Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · June 11 · 48m

"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.

An interview with Ann Larson about "Cleanup on Aisle Five"

The company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments.

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