In the UK, Labour is advancing the Employment Rights Bill, a rare positive intervention from this government. One of its greatest flaws is that it lacks provisions to ensure worker safety in very hot weather. A European worker drinks water to cool down as he works on...
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700, representing 8,000 Kroger retail workers in Indiana, voted earlier this month to reject a tentative agreement for a second time. The vote authorized the union to strike the grocery giant. Kroger’s most recent contract...
Concern about the ongoing decline in birth rates around the world has recently transformed from an arcane demographic preoccupation into a marquee political controversy. Many were indignant when it was revealed that the Trump administration was considering a variety...
Narendra Modi’s government has launched major schemes of urban transformation in cities like Ayodhya. Behind the rhetoric of development and modernity lurks a crude Hindu nationalist chauvinism that’s seeking to erase the messy pluralism of urban life. Devotees stand...
The Trump administration is attacking jobs and wages in the building trades, as well as the rights of immigrant workers. Building trades unions have been divided over whether to try to curry favor with the president or confront the attacks head-on. Members of the Los...
Faced with the return of great power rivalry between the US and China and its own economic stagnation, the Europe Union seems as divided as ever. Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and trade Peter Szijjarto speaks during a ceremony in Debrecen, Hungary, on...
Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s political ire, acerbic social critique, and the lingering practices of realist cinema movements. Jaws is a...
Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms. Trey, homeless in Olympia, Washington, sits in a...
Despite what Democrats say, working-class support for Donald Trump is complicated and nuanced. Some could never be won over to a populist economic program. Others, though, are still reachable — and there are just enough of them to win elections. A supporter waits for...
The Department of Justice keeps changing its story about documents related to the politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, offering contradictory reasons for refusing to release the files. A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein...
In Britain, hotels hosting refugees have become a target of anti-immigration rallies. Keir Starmer’s government is pandering to the protests — announcing a partnership with delivery app firms to identify asylum seekers working as riders. A Deliveroo courier delivering...
It’s clear that Donald Trump will aim to make governance as difficult as possible for Zohran Mamdani’s potential New York City mayoralty. But Mamdani has a range of options available to counter the president’s attacks. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani...