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Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.

Many religious groups have wanted to destroy liberal democracy, explains author Jerome Copulsky. But before Trump, none had taken power.

"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."

New comics by Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchanksy, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman.

A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.

DOGE has slashed over 1,000 AmeriCorps grants, many of which funded education and social services in rural areas.

Gaza’s Declaration of Life—and Living

The nation's premier cultural stage joins a chorus of voices in the arts demanding just labor conditions as a pillar of free expression.

Enough about Chris Kyle. Let’s focus our anger against the authorities and the institutions that craft the lies that the Chris Kyles of the world believe.

Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.

The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.

The Trump administration is attacking protesters from all angles. Activists refuse to back down.

Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.

How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.

Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.

India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world

At the end of the day, the Lizzo story is not about sex: it’s about labor.

In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.

The Right has flooded the internet with misinformation. The content creators of BreadTube are doing something about it.

The new non-white BFFs just serve as accessories (to the white women at the center of the show)

Mass strikes? Escalating disruptions? The call for unified action on May 2028 presents real opportunity if we start now.

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.