
Epidemiology Students at Harvard Want a Contract
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
The illness in the food chain should remind us that we are all only as healthy as the sickest person in society.
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Jedediah about his vision of commonwealth politics; the challenges of organizing in a socially distanced world; where the law fits in; and whether coming together also means naming new enemies.
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
A pharmacy technician who tested positive for COVID-19 worries that not enough has been done to protect his coworkers—and that he faces a backlash for speaking out.
Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
Wayne Lizardi’s route is operating on a reduced schedule, but his bus is still crowded with passengers traveling to work.
“Please tell people to stop thanking grocery workers for working. We don’t have a choice. You can thank us by staying home.”
“$2.50 is not a wage. It is a guacamole upcharge.”
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Astra about what the coronavirus pandemic has to do with eating meat, whether we really need a technocratic savior, and why debt relief is inherently tied to democracy.
Academic instructors who were already underemployed and insecure before the crisis face an uncertain future, with little prospect for federal relief.
Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how the labor movement can cope with the crisis and salvage itself.
A server who worked at IHOP for twelve years had her final paycheck withheld until she agreed to return her uniform and officially quit.
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.