Portside

America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contract workers are on edge this week with just a few days to go before a possible federal government shutdown engineered by former President Donald Trump’s most ardent partisans in the House of Represen

Workers in action

We are an Ad Hoc group of trade union officials, staff members, and activists who oppose New York City Mayor Adams and the Municipal Labor Committee trying to force us into a Medicare Advantage Plan.

A report focused on 11 western states and found that the problem of voting official turnover is particularly acute in the region's swing states, where conspiracies have flourished.

"Breaking up Amazon is key to repairing the online market and opening the way for competition," said one expert.

Canada’s launch of a national child care system shows what it takes to improve child care across a country

Indeed, when Letitia James filed suit against Trump last year, she dubbed his behavior the “art of the steal.”

When celebs disappoint, and creators turn against their industries

The 40th-anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense", a great concert film, is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.