Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats in their image.
Tens of thousands of longshoremen at 14 ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are poised to strike early Tuesday morning if their union and employers cannot reach an agreement by midnight, which could disrupt the economy and the election.
In the United States and Canada, we’ve seen an increase in labor militancy. This upsurge is a chance to inject working-class politics into the political arena, which has so far been mostly unresponsive to workers’ demands.
US policies strengthen Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political preference in the short term is an open-ended war, not a deal. Netanyahu is a loose cannon, which Kamala Harris should have no interest in reloading 10 weeks out from an election.
Harris will almost certainly win the labor vote, but what will really matter is Trump's ability to cut into her margins with appeals to working-class voters on issues like immigration and trade.
We speak with UAW president Shawn Fain at the DNC about why the UAW has endorsed Harris-Walz, what is at stake in this election for working people and the labor movement, and which side of the class war Donald Trump is on.
Harris must call for a ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel this week. It’s a no-brainer. Refusing to would mean risking defeat
The law in question has been on the books for more than a decade. It prohibits the United States from assisting any unit of a foreign security force that commits “gross violations” of human rights. But it has never been applied to Israel.
The National Labor Relations Board has taken a more forceful pro-labor stance as strikes and organizing efforts ramped up. Potential new leadership and a series of court decisions threaten those efforts.
The reforms President Biden has proposed are just the beginning of a long battle to restore the independence of the Supreme Court that was lost when conservatives seized this branch of our government for their own ends.
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