When people drown, they don’t scream or wave; they fall silently. Their mouths gasp at the surface, and their arms and legs ...
Tante, originally from Togo, had the job of determining the age of cattle by checking the size of their teeth. An overhead conveyor would move carcasses, suspended by their ankles, along the chain.
Across the United States, workers continue to organize. They continue to win union recognition, negotiate better conditions, and build power across industries and communities. Their determination ...
To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.
Wildfire smoke from Canada can be seen from the skyline of midtown Manhattan in New York City on July 17. Photo by Gary Hershorn/ Get ready for a shitload more fossil-fuel power plants being built in ...
The development of artificial intelligence technology is set to disrupt virtually every industry, every profession and every employment sector.
Beyond cannabis, Australia rescheduled psilocybin and MDMA in 2023, making psychedelic-assisted therapy legal in a nation-state for the first time, with similar developments now happening at the state ...
The engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion. But the workers at its core are falling sick and dying from an illness called silicosis. Now these workers—most of whom are young ...
Alva Yanowitz spent much of her freshman year sick with a mysterious illness. She was tired all the time, with a sore throat and cough that wouldn’t go away. In late spring, Yanowitz ran a mold test ...
When workers at the historic Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper hit the picket line in October of 2022, they had no idea that ...
It’s high time for the labor movement to join forces with the democratic socialists winning elections by putting workers over capital. People attend a Tax the Rich rally hosted by the Democratic ...
To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put ...