Nobody saw it coming. In February, Quebec’s labor minister, Jean Boulet, of the ruling conservative Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ), introduced Bill 89 to the National Assembly of Quebec: “An Act to give...
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Days before going to the hospital in Rome in February 2025, Pope Francis sent a very strong rebuke to American bishops for their tepid response to the mass deportation orders of the Trump administration. The...
Donald Trump’s trade war has triggered panic in global markets, sending economic shockwaves through international supply chains. Stock markets are in free fall, growth forecasts have been sharply revised downward, and an economic recession with...
On Sunday, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council announced the results of the runoff election for the 2025 to 2029 presidential term. Incumbent president Daniel Noboa emerged victorious, earning 55 percent of the vote, while his opponent,...
In this monthly roundup on “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University will recap all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more...
Finland is widely seen in Western Europe and the United States as a progressive paradise. In truth, its center-right-led coalition government in office since June 2023 has presided over far-reaching austerity measures, leading to rising...
The Donald Trump administration is currently in the middle of what might be the gravest federal government overreach seen this century at least, asserting unprecedented repressive powers against even US citizens, defying a Supreme Court...
Review of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University of California Press, 2025). This review is part of a series of reviews of Eric Blanc’s...
The federal government under President Joe Biden prosecuted fewer corporate crime cases than at any point in the last three decades. White-collar criminal prosecutions hit a thirty-year low in recent years, according to data shared...
During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghetto’s walls. Children whirled around carousels, giddy crowds converged to holler at the explosive spectacle, and friends watched the...
Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of...
Widespread concern about falling birth rates has prompted some to politically organize around reversing their decline. Representatives of this pronatalist movement — ostensibly united by little more than a belief that more babies should be...
