Defying Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike

Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks…

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Trump Nixing Conservation Rule in Favor of Drilling and Mining on Federal Lands

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on the substack Public Domain to which you can subscribe here. At an all-handsmeeting of Interior Department employees on April 9, Secretary Doug Burgum stressed that managing and protecting federal public lands “must…

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We Asked You to Share Protest Photos. Wow, You Delivered.

A protester in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Demonstrators also gathered in other major cities across the country.Aashish Kiphayet/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This weekend, national protests broke out once again to demand an end to creeping…

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Protesters Nationwide Take to the Streets, Condemn Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda

Tens of thousands took to the streets across the United States on Saturday in a scathing indictment of Donald Trump’s mounting pile of attacks. These protests came just two weeks following the “Hands Off” protests that brought out millions of people across the country to the streets in coordinated actions, denouncing the administration’s attacks on…

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Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0

Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, his administration has issued a series of executive orders escalating the U.S.’s demonization of trans people, migrants, and activists against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A key strategy of the White House appears to be controlling the mobility of these groups and removing them from public life — whether…

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Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy

The Biden administration supervised the largest repeal in social benefits in U.S. history upon declaring the COVID-19 pandemic over. The Trump administration appears to be surpassing that feat, rapidly winding down the project called the United States. The fallout includes the health of the American people. In recent weeks, we’ve seen billions slashed from state…

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