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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens

Ronan Farrow The New Yorker
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

Algae: The Food of the Future of the Past

Livia Gershon JSTOR
In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics. But it wasn’t just the unpleasant flavor that killed the algae craze.

Enduring Lessons From the Pittsburgh and Flint Water Crises

Daniella Zessoules Demos
We can take heart in the knowledge that everyday people have the power to force their elected officials to keep public goods public. Pittsburgh’s Our Water Campaign showed us how, with strategies that other cities can replicate, adapt, and pass on.

Will Amazon Workers’ Win Infect Walmart Next?

Coco McPherson LA Progressive
Undeterred, Smalls wants all American workers to have access to the organizing strategies that resulted in his union’s historic win, regardless of the company.

Amazon Workers Fall Short on Second Staten Island Union Vote

Josefa Velasquez THE CITY
Out of nearly 1,000 ballots cast at the LDJ5 warehouse, just 380 supported joining the Amazon Labor Union, which made history last month with a scrappy campaign that defeated the e-commerce giant at a neighboring warehouse.

A Labor Rebirth?

Gregory N. Heires The New Crossroads
Unions appear to be making a comeback as the Covid-19 economic crisis has emboldened workers and stirred up longstanding outrage over inequality and inadequate wages and benefits.

Socialists Are Trying To Revive the American Labor Movement

Gabriel Winant and Teagan Harris Jacobin
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.