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Donald Trump will do his best to undermine unions. But the labor movement still has momentum on its side and numerous opportunities to seize. Trump’s presidency has to be a time for labor action, not despair.

Egg prices were up 28% in last month’s price report.Typically, when the price of something rises by as much as eggs have this past year, people will buy less of it.That’s not the case with eggs. Demand for eggs is relatively inelastic.

This pendulum swing from the sort of diversity-focused art that dominated pop culture during the Obama years to what we’re seeing now is hardly unprecedented.

Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama should get a third opportunity to vote on unionizing, a federal labor judge has ruled.

A review of Blue Collar Empire:The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anti-Communist Crusade by Jeff Schurhke.

“The administration coming into this country has made no secret about its feelings on unions. Together as book workers we have the collective ability and strength to fight back." - Daniela Franceschetti, Book Seller

Chinese Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

When Biden’s boosters were confronted with polling that most Americans felt negative about the economy, their response was to point to aggregate data. Yet, no one lives in the aggregate. You remember the day the sheriff puts you out of your home.

This book chronicles the World War II-Cold War-era program that encouraged private pen pal correspondence between women in the USA and the Soviet Union, an initiative that fell victim to the rancorous politics of the era.

Roughly 2 million civilians work for the federal government. All over the country, they protect national security and public health. They ensure food is safe and veterans are cared for. They fear for their jobs under Trump.