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Embrace Left Wing Machine Politics
Brooklyn, the place where stars are born. (Photo: Getty)
The farther south you go on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn the more it becomes the sort of lively hectic commercial strip/ party that exists in few places outside of New York. The new s...
Minneapolis Is The Way
Minneapolis, January 23, 2026. (Photo: Getty)
I just got back from Labor Notes. It’s the biggest conference of the grassroots, activist wing of the labor movement. Thousands of union members who are fired up to make the world a better plac...
Brutal Oppression and Beautiful Humanity Exist In Every Grocery Store
At every register, a story. (Photo: Getty)
I have always found grocery stores fascinating—both as endpoints of a staggering global web of logistics, agriculture, and commerce, and as labor stories. So I was enthralled by Ann Larson’s new b...
An AI-Funded Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Dangerous
Let’s think this thing through, brother. (Photo: Getty)
We are all worried about AI. Bernie Sanders has a bold proposal: The federal government will take a 50% equity stake in the big AI companies, and use it to create a sovereign wealth f...
Less Than $20 an Hour, After 23 Years on the Job
Nadine Johnson, Mercy Home worker.
On a brilliant, sunny Wednesday afternoon, a group of women in purple t-shirts huddled along the sidewalk of Willoughby Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Behind them was the gothic black metal fence surroundi...
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