The key question is whether we learn from deindustrialization and treat this moment as a chance to reimagine the economy: to build, and in some cases rebuild, institutions that center working people a...

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, just struck an agreement that will instantly change their lives for the better. It’s a lesson for other workers in the region.

Union machinist Taylor Rehmet defeated his Republican opponent in Fort Worth, Texas, with an uncommon policy platform.

For the past few years, valuable government programs have helped women gain access to well-paying jobs traditionally held by men. That all changed when this administration took over.

Mary Alice McCarthy reflects on Trump’s attacks on workers and how solidarity is key this Labor Day to achieving economic justice.

The Times editorial board argues that Congress must change the Federal Aviation Administration’s funding structure.

As Lone Star State Republicans prepare to do Trump’s bidding, expect the GOP’s gerrymandering war to expand.

Party elites are considerably more responsible for their woeful state of affairs than the former president.

In Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir of “a family and a culture in crisis,” J.D. Vance, now vice-president of the United States, gives an

The Trump administration’s unlawful removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador—and willful defiance of court orders to facilitate his return—are demonstrating a flagrant disreg...

Join the Good Jobs Collaborative for a discussion with Senator Chris Murphy that will explore the Trump administration's actions toward workers, as well as how Democrats can regain the trust of workin...

Democrats should not confuse Trump’s tariff disaster for a trade policy that helps workers.

Chris Van Hollen warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ and says he hopes to report back to family on Maryland man’s condition

An internal document from the Social Security Administration warned staff there would be a “strain” on resources.

Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and ot...

On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.

The pioneering liberal blogger was widely known for celebrating his cats every Friday. Today, in his honor, we do the same.

In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

Shrinking cities have tried to stabilize their populations with foreign-born residents. The strategy was working, until the inauguration.

How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes

A federal judge permanently reinstated Cathy Harris to her position on the...

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

Behind closed doors, many top executives voice support for the new administration.

The decision clears a roadblock for the new administration as it attempts sweeping changes to downsize the federal government.

Mass federal layoffs and attacks on worker rights under the Trump-Musk regime are weakening labor protections.

There are probationary employees who are new in government service and those...

Trump is counting on his opposition’s deeply ingrained fear of being divisive to give him the room to break the country. So far he’s getting what he wants.

Jared Bernstein, the outgoing chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, says that Donald Trump is inheriting a strong economy, but with less freedom to maneuver than he had during his first term.

What the Danes get right, they get very right. Meanwhile, Trumpism isn’t working at all.

In a populist moment, the Democratic Party had the extremely rich and the very famous, some great music, and Mark Ruffalo. And they got shellacked.

A card-carrying member of the economic “precariat” argues that much of what passes for Democratic politics goes right past voters like him.

If a new Trump administration wanted to show solidarity with working class voters, here are a few things the federal government could do.