Ten thousand Americans turn 60 every day, and on average we’ll live another 23 years. We’ll vote in huge numbers, as we always do. One possibility is that we’ll help turn back the clock a little, toward the world we actually built in our youth.
Parties and movements in transition
Post-Roe, providers and patients are working across state lines and new legal barriers to provide and access abortion care.
Across the South, eight states — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia — have near-total bans on abortion.
The year has been characterized by incredible solidarity, as Starbucks and Amazon workers challenged our conceptions of political possibility and galvanized a resurgent labor movement. It was a year of taking power to task, from the fearless Warrior Met strike to the militance of worker-led, independent union drives at Amazon, Trader Joe's and Chipotle.
A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup
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Post-midterms turning points as culture clashes get physical
Reader Comments: Midterms - Right Rebuked, Struggles Continue; Learning from History; Biggest Academic Strike in US History; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....
Progressive and leftist voters are always told we’re too extreme. The midterm results should quash that narrative. Results suggest that when the Democratic Party listened to its progressive flank voters rewarded its politicians.
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