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President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

Everybody hates Sean

by Maximillian Alvarez July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

Members of the National Samsung Electronics Union shout slogans in front of a signboard of Samsung Electronics outside the company's Giheung Campus in Yongin on July 10, 2024. Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: International

Korea’s Samsung workers are striking for the very first time

by Kap Seol July 18, 2024July 18, 2024

Businessman putting money in suit jacket pocket. Photo via Getty Images.

Politics and Movements: US

In New York, wage theft violators get millions in government contracts

by Marcus Baram, Documented and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

A packed room listens to Jane McAlevey speak in conversation with Anthony Thigpenn, not pictured, during Book Talk: "Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations" by Jane McAlevey at UFCW 770 Union Hall in Los Angeles Thursday, July 13, 2023. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Economy and Inequality

We’re in a class war. Jane McAlevey actually acted like it.

by Alex N. Press July 9, 2024July 8, 2024

A woman in the West Bank closes her eyes during an interview for Palestine Remembers, a forthcoming documentary from Shadowgraph

Workers of the World

Palestinians hold generations of memory—a new documentary aims to help pass them down

by Ross Domoney, Antonis Vradis and Nadia Péridot July 3, 2024July 5, 2024

Rev. James Lawson speaks from the pulpit of the First AME Church during an event in solidarity with union workers in Wisconsin on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination on April 4, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

On losing “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America”

by Kent Wong July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

Students at San Jose State University are gathered at University's Student Union Patio, to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Jose, California, United States on April 24, 2024. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

University endowments suppress dissent by design

by John Schmidt and Sammy Feldblum July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023.

Economy and Inequality

NTSB says Norfolk Southern threatened staff as they investigated the East Palestine derailment

by Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News June 28, 2024June 28, 2024

An officer with the Milton, WV Police Department conducts a raid on the camper of Coty Cecil. Photo courtesy of Coty Cecil

Police Accountability Report

Cannabis entrepreneur faces 10-year sentence in same WV county building a multimillion-dollar pot farm

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis June 28, 2024June 28, 2024

Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on May 15, 2024. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Economy and Inequality

‘Reprehensible’: NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with East Palestine probe

by Edward Carver June 26, 2024June 26, 2024