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Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, on how well-meaning liberals paved the way for Trump

Like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, Americans are finally realizing how dire their labor situation is

Workers' Rights, TT Strike, Pilots and Cabin Crews Win, Workers and Peasants vs. Modi, Mexican Workers and Trump's New Treaty, Class in Ontario

Led by people directly impacted by imprisonment, organizations in California have been building on the growing national momentum to end the money bail system.

The problem facing working people in the U.S. is not just lack of jobs, but lack of good jobs. UE's Director of Communications takes a look at what kinds of policies produce good jobs, UE's history of fighting for good jobs and a democratic economy,

U.S. workers have not given up on unions-a survey of the workforce found interest in joining unions to be at a four-decade high. But few workers who don’t belong to unions will get to join one, since fewer than 1% will experience an organizing drive.

Donald Trump, Jr. blames Democrats for the death of Mollie Tibbetts. Racist robocalls traced to neo-Nazi group target Andrew Gillum. Open, blatant appeals to racism are now the daily common political currency of Trump and the Ultra Right.

Harvey Washington Wiley, a do-gooder farm boy who trained as chemist, worried that preservatives might be harming the public. The trials' shocking results led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and eventually to the creation of the FDA.

Republicans are siding with a Democratic segregationist over a GOP war hero to own the libs.

Fueled by debt and years of easy credit, America’s energy boom is on shaky footing.