Jessye Kass Karlin: The Recruiter Who Says Rejected Candidates’ Names Out Loud

Jessye Kass Karlin: The Recruiter Who Says Rejected Candidates’ Names Out Loud

In six days, 214 people applied for a single $41,000 job in New Jersey. Each application represented someone’s hope for stability, for the ability to…
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Zohran Mamdani and the Test of Workforce Politics in America

Zohran Mamdani and the Test of Workforce Politics in America

In the span of three months, Zohran Mamdani has gone from unlikely primary challenger to the favored candidate to run America’s largest city. His June…
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Flipping the Algorithm: AI for Public Good

Flipping the Algorithm: AI for Public Good

AI has entered the workplace with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball. So far, most of the headlines pound home what it’s taking away:…
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From DIY to ROI: Meow Wolf Workers Fight to Reclaim the Collective

From DIY to ROI: Meow Wolf Workers Fight to Reclaim the Collective

On July 24, 2025, employees at Radio Tave, Meow Wolf’s Houston outpost, filed for union recognition under CWA Local 7055, joining successful organizing efforts in…
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When Your Job Breaks Your Brain: Relearning How to Think After Exiting a Harmful Workplace

When Your Job Breaks Your Brain: Relearning How to Think After Exiting a Harmful Workplace

You’ve left the job. The toxic manager is gone, the Slack pings have stopped, and yet something’s still wrong. You can’t concentrate. You freeze in…
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Show Me the Warrant: How One City Turned Constitutional Law Into a Shield for Workers

Show Me the Warrant: How One City Turned Constitutional Law Into a Shield for Workers

Federal immigration agents conducted one of the largest workplace raids in U.S. history on a Tuesday evening in early September, arresting hundreds of workers at…
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The Other Rosie the Riveters: Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women Who Were Erased from the “We Can Do It” Story

The Other Rosie the Riveters: Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women Who Were Erased from the “We Can Do It” Story

Everyone knows Rosie the Riveter, or at least the sanitized version plastered on mugs and T-shirts. In the American imagination, She’s the white woman in…
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You Know O’Brien Is the Villain, Right? Then Why Is He Running Your Workplace?

You Know O’Brien Is the Villain, Right? Then Why Is He Running Your Workplace?

When George Orwell introduced us to O’Brien in his dystopian masterwork 1984, he didn’t give us a cartoonish tyrant. He gave us something far more…
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