The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) 2023 “stand-up strike” against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as significant is what came next. Before the strike even ended, thousands of...
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It would require a highly selective memory to regard the abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3 as Washington’s return to an imperialist policy that it supposedly abandoned in 1945,...
What could possibly go wrong? A company called Rent A Human boasts on its website that “robots need your body” and calls itself the “meatspace layer for AI.” Customers can find humans to do their...
For decades the Nordic welfare states have been held up as global exemplars of gender equality and expansive public care systems. Yet beneath this image of egalitarian modernity, cracks have begun to widen. Across Europe...
On February 4, the Trump administration quietly filed a motion to end the asylum claims of one of the countless Minnesota residents being targeted by masked immigration agents throughout the state. In this case, their mark is...
On Sunday, February 1, Costa Ricans went to the polls to elect a new president and fifty-seven members of congress. The election, which was framed as a referendum on the outgoing administration of Rodrigo Chaves,...
Last week, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes took to X to announce that America’s white-collar workers were the latest victims of a newly waged class war captained by tech billionaires. The goal, he wrote, was “to...
In the days following the US abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, Donald Trump wasted little time in extending the threat to both Colombia and Mexico. Labeling President Gustavo Petro a “sick...
The largest and longest nurses’ strike in the city’s history is continuing at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. About 10,500 other nurses are starting...
On Thursday, the Trump administration abruptly announced that it was ending the monthslong occupation of Minneapolis and St Paul by thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers. Donald Trump’s scandal-ridden “border...
Aged eighteen, just three months after giving birth to her second child, Dalisay emigrated to Spain. Leaving her daughters in the care of her sister in the Philippines, she started a job as a live-in...
When struggling football managers get a vote of confidence from their board, it often comes with an unspoken “for now.” In a similar vein, the clock for Keir Starmer is definitely ticking, despite pledges of...
