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Trump’s corruption poisons everything, even the World Cup
This is the lowest moment in the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team history. A 4-1 loss to Belgium in the FIFA World Cup as hosts in Seattle is the reflection that our nation’s soccer federation and fans will have to face. Our loss came hours after a Trump White House press conference in which he […]
- By : Erica Meade
- July 10, 2026
Zero savings and 300,000 lost jobs later, DOGE is officially dead
WASHINGTON—Randy Erwin, who presides over the National Federation of Federal Employees, has a two-word summation of the July 8 demise of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency: Good riddance. Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire cohort took a chainsaw to needed government programs allegedly to save money but ended up saving nothing. They did, […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- July 10, 2026
Modern abolitionist movement needed to free the 50 million enslaved globally
More than 50 million people around the globe are estimated to be in enslavement according to 2022 reports by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations. During the horrific transatlantic trade in African people from the 16th to the 19th centuries, more than 20 million African people were captured and enslaved by Western colonial powers. […]
- By : Roger McKenzie
- July 10, 2026
Super El Niño is here, and we must organize to prepare for it
As of June 2026, the National Oceanographic Association of America has warned that a “super El Niño” is forming in the Pacific. With wildfires and a statewide drought emergency threatening the most vulnerable in our communities, we are warned that a drier, warmer winter is on the way. The higher temperatures at the surface of […]
- By : Kaylie Couch
- July 10, 2026
Right to breathe: Unfiltered messages from Gaza
I recently had the chance to send a message to the president of Ireland, Her Excellency Catherine Connolly. President Connolly is a vocal supporter of Palestine and remains one of the few European heads of state to explicitly accuse Israel of carrying out a genocide in Gaza. She has a long history of this advocacy; […]
- By : Ramzy Baroud
- July 10, 2026
20 years later, fired journalists win $3.6M from Santa Barbara newspaper owner
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Wendy McCaw, the controversial owner and publisher of the now-defunct Santa Barbara News-Press, to pay $3.603 million in back pay, interest, and damages to workers she illegally fired or shorted in pay five years ago, including at least $111,040 to their union, then the Graphic Communications […]
- By : Press Associates
- July 10, 2026
Maryland governor signs anti-desecration law, earning praise from Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—On May 13, 2026, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed SB 233, a law creating legal requirements for the sale, transfer, or government acquisition and disposition of cemeteries. The new law promises to protect vulnerable and historic cemeteries from desecration by providing legal standing for descendant communities and family members to sue if they believe […]
- By : Damion Dixon
- July 9, 2026
Union Steamfitters prevent catastrophic midtown Manhattan building crash
NEW YORK—In all the worries and angst over loss of jobs nationwide, what is often overlooked is that there are certain skills, observations, and alertness only humans can perform—such as preventing a catastrophic building collapse in midtown Manhattan. That’s what happened at 235 East 42nd Street on July 7, when two members of Steamfitters Local […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- July 9, 2026
Data centers at center of Virginia battles over taxes, environment, and jobs
RICHMOND, Va.—Ahead of a government shutdown deadline, Virginia’s General Assembly voted to adopt 14 amendments and pass along a much-contested two-year spending plan for Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to sign into law. A month-long budget battle has shown fractures in the Commonwealth’s Democratic Trifecta, revealed divisions both among and within trade unions, and given fuel […]
- By : Jonathan Vassar
- July 9, 2026
Philadelphia hot ‘strike summer’ rages on as IBEW celebrates contract victory
PHILADELPHIA—So far, it’s been “strike summer” here in Philadelphia. As the city prepared to take the global stage for the 2026 World Cup and the nation’s 250th anniversary, the battle lines of the class struggle were squared up across the city. On one side stood corporations raking in ever-increasing, record-breaking profits. On the other side […]
- By : Emma Glazer And Angel Rodriguez Gomez
- July 9, 2026