How prosecutors and courts collude to keep corrupt executives from doing prison time.
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Bringing Labor Rights Back to Bangladesh
After a horrific factory collapse in 2013, pressure from global unions, human rights groups, and reputational damage to big fashion brands led to a groundbreaking accord to improve labor conditions. What has it achieved?
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The Politics of Virtual Reality
With inexpensive immersive media about to hit the market, we need to ask: How will they affect us? And can they be put to good use?
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We Don’t Need ‘Modern Asylums’
We need to make deinstitutionalization work for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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SCOTUS Comes Calling on Public Sector Unions
A case that could decimate public sector unions is now headed to the Supreme Court.
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Immigration and America’s Urban Revival
The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
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World Cup Corruption: The Bigger Scandal
In the shadow of Qatar’s new soccer stadium, Nepali migrant workers face exploitation, injury, and death.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Why Labor Law Should Stop Leaning So Hard on the Wagner Act
As the National Labor Relations Act turns 80, we should remember what the law was designed to do—and what it wasn’t.
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Will the New Federal Overtime Protections Apply to You?
The Labor Department just announced that millions of Americans will now be eligible for overtime protection for the first time.
