Trump messed with Texas. Now an army of pissed-off Texans are fighting his border wall
President Trump has renewed his efforts to "Build the Wall" in areas along the US-Mexico Border that don't currently have border barriers—including the Big Bend region of West Texas. Invading people's...
8 Okt 51min
He loved working in concrete. Now, he's dying from the chemical exposure
Because he was bullied in elementary school for being Native American, James Gardner's friends lovingly call him "NDN." His friends and family know NDN to be a fiercely loyal, loving person, and a fie...
5 Okt 40min
Want to save the world? Start by unionizing your workplace
"We are living in a pivotal moment in labor history," Cole Rockarts writes in their new book Fired Up About Unions. "At a time when corporations have more power, profit, and political influence than e...
30 Sep 53min
Toledo residents' lives upended by deadly Brent Industries explosions
On the morning of August 18, residents living near the Brent Industries facility in Toledo, Ohio, awoke to a series of massive explosions and a towering chemical fire in their backyards. Two Brent Ind...
23 Sep 57min
"Purge Palantir!": Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
On August 27, registered nurses, patients, and community allies rallied and stopped traffic in cities around the US to demand that hospitals and elected officials cut all ties with artificial intellig...
16 Sep 43min
Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter (Wheeling, WV Labor Symposium Speech)
Over the 2026 Labor Day weekend, Working People host and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium in Wheeling, West Virginia, organized by the Whee...
9 Sep 32min
Can anyone "make it" in today's music industry?
The 20th-century days of vinyl records, tape decks, CDs, Tower Records, and MTV have given way to our 21st-century age of MP3s and music streaming, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, TikTok, and Ticketmaster. ...
2 Sep 56min
"Katrina 2.0": Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)
After a deadly "derecho" storm and flash floods slammed the midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana have been surviving witho...
24 Aug 47min
