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Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the government can disappear any people it wishes, we all should be very, very afraid.

Trump posted a message to his followers just before pausing the bulk of his tariffs. He may have accidentally confessed to insider trading and market manipulation on Truth Social.

Hot war, cold war, trade war, class war

Manufacturing jobs alone didn’t build postwar prosperity — organized labor did. And Trump is killing it...

Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker

"We sounded the alarm, and they're backing off," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "But the fight's not over."

The president is compelled to delay his tariffs. The Republican Congress failed to do it, so the markets did.

That was the week that was

A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing

As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile