Labor

Unlike most left issues, the environmental crisis affects everyone. But this universality seems politically problematic to some on the Left. They worry that the injustices and miseries against which …

An uneasy calm prevails in Cambodia after the government crackdown on protests by garment workers in January.

In a strong show of support, small business owners, workers, health care practitioners, parents and Chicago Aldermen rallied today at City Council for paid sick days legislation.

Numerous groups have campaigned for years calling for his release, saying he never received a fair trial and was convicted largely on the basis of testimony from a jailhouse …

Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …

Climate change activists should look to North Carolina for lessons on how to build a broad and diverse movement powerful enough to challenge the corrupt status quo on several …

One reason for progressivism is the facility with which exogenous actors apparently manipulate revolutions to serve quite different goals from those espoused by indigenous adherents.

There is no reason for the fight to control climate change to continue becoming discombobulated over false trade-offs between jobs and the environment.

Dean Baker: While there are limits as to what Obama can do based on executive authority alone, there are many areas where he can have an impact.

Since the beginning of the Great Recession, policymakers and reporters have spoken of a growing crisis in public pensions.