Anti-Union Crusader Heads Labor Department Committee

Elisabeth Messenger failed to disclose more than $750,000 in compensation for her and her husband from anti-union organizations when Trump appointed her to lead the Office of Labor-Management Standards in 2025

Bernie Sanders Is on the Ballot—Against Trump

Tuesday’s midterm elections offer, at last, a test of the most important question in Democratic politics.

Israel Has Voted, But What Comes Next?

The Israeli election of Oct. 27, 2026, was among the most highly anticipated votes in the country’s history. It was consequential, if not yet conclusive.

Trumpism Is Running Out of Gas

A look at the polls and Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the midterms campaign trail suggests that MAGA may be exhausted and about to suffer a significant body blow.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — November 3, 2026

Zero hour

How Field Organizing Beats Big Money

In Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, Democrat Will Lawrence’s campaign has knocked on over 200,000 doors, canvassing voters of all political persuasions.

A Conversation With Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Kagan's candid comments on the Supreme Court's rulings on election and voting rulings, democracy, Gerrymandering, Voting Rights Act, Campaign Finance, Legitimacy, independence from the Executive, Religious Liberty and tradition.

Election Day Discipline, and What Comes After

What is most important is that we hold on to our democratic discipline. Democrats must lay the foundation for structural transformation that can better support a re-imagined and resilient democracy, beginning with hearings on Supreme Court reform.

This Week in People’s History, Nov 4–10, 2026

Enslaved people confined to the hold of a merchant ship.
The Largest Successful Rebellion by Enslaved People in the U.S. Deserves to be Celebrated, Not Forgotten

Nepal Isn’t Asking for Charity. It’s Calling in a Debt.

Just ahead of the United Nations climate conference, Nepal’s flood recovery becomes an early test of its new loss-and-damage fund.
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Culture

food

Eat Mesquite!

Serina DeSalvio Ambrook.com
In our quest for high-fiber, high-protein foods that are sustainable and delicious, the sturdy mesquite tree is getting some attention. An ideal plant for low-input agriculture, it’s adaptable to heat and drought and it has a lot of species.

poetry

Dakota Homecoming

Gwen Westerman
Dakota poet Gwen Westerman invites us to eavesdrop on a revealing conversation she had with a non-Native speaker.

books

An Organization of Organizers

Alan Wald New Politics
Reviewer Wald says this book "is entirely convincing that the IS achievement in this era should earn a well-deserved place in any accurate history of the 1960–70s Left."

food

A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age

Nicholas Kristof The New York Times
The sickening situation in American meatpacking plants could soon get worse, for the Trump administration proposed raising the maximum normal speed of chicken slaughter lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute.

Labor

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Mass Worker Education: Governing From the Shop Floor

Nantina Vgontzas and Sanjay Pinto New Labor Forum
Photo of smiling people celebrating. A mass worker education program could support legal co-enforcement while also equipping workers with resources to exercise greater control over their conditions, addressing shop-floor challenges before they become acute.

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Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96

Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dolores Huerta, a founder of the UFW, helped expand the meaning of feminism. She showed that women’s equality could not be separated from the fight for fair wages, immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom and political power.

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Dockworkers Worldwide Are About To Strike for Palestine

Peter Cole Jacobin magazine
The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins this Friday — and could be the largest worker action against war in history.

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Meta Must Reinstate Brazilian Bank Workers’ Union on WhatsApp, Says UNI

UNI Global Union UNI Global Union
Just days before Brazil's presidential run-off, Meta shut down the WhatsApp channel of a major union. WhatsApp was a key tool for organizing voters for the election between the former union leader Lula and the son of ousted authoritarian Bolsinaro.

Friday nite video

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Historian Debunks The Biggest Witchcraft Myths

Historian of Witchcraft & Demonology Mikki Brock deep-dives to separate fact from fiction: the Salem witch trials, the original witch hunts and what modern-day witch hunts look like.

video

Patrick Stewart's Extraordinary Career

Patrick Stewart was both a staple of the British stage and a global star known for his role in Star Trek and X-Men. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Stewart reached millions worldwide.

video

We Spoke To Trump Voters In Rural Florida

They're begging for help. Senate candidate Angie Nixon pitched Medicare For All to Trump voters, a message she's hoping will take her to Congress in November.

 

video

Digger | Movie

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. Tom Cruise,  Riz Ahmed.