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Rideshare Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors

There’s a terrible human cost when companies like Uber misclassify their workers. A new law could change that.

Polluting industries want you to think the climate crisis is your fault, not theirs.

The man Trump charged with protecting our public lands doesn’t believe we should have any.

Candidates should pledge that the middle class won’t pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.

When workers can’t organize or speak out, their lives — and ours — may be at risk.

When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have far-reaching proposals to give workers something even more important than money: power.

Canadians enjoy much better health care, much less inequality, and — a new study finds — higher incomes too.

Donors don’t like it, but using this publicly available information is one of the best ways to fight corruption.

Rich families cashed in on over half the bailout money set aside for farmers hurt by Trump’s trade policies.