How No Evil Foods, a plant-based meat company, squashed a union drive
North Carolina
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Eyeing Federal Infrastructure Windfall, Private Equity Courts Public Utilities
Bernhard Capital has pitched to take over management of municipal water and power systems. The federal infrastructure bill could help them.
Posted inEducation in America
The Attempted Defenestration of Nikole Hannah-Jones
A textbook case of systemic racism and partisan overreach stands to tarnish the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.
Posted inWorking in America
The Fight for $15 Confronts the ‘Labor Shortage’ Narrative
Strikers are walking off the job today, seeking dignity at work at a time when business owners want a reserve army to accept low pay and bad conditions.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
North Carolina Botched an Emergency Re-entry Program for Returning Citizens
A re-entry program that quarantined people with possible COVID-19 exposure endangered their lives and reproduced the prison conditions they left behind.
Posted inWorking in America
How OSHA Fails to Protect Migrant Food Processing Workers
North Carolina is an extreme case—but far from the only one.
Posted inPolitics
Are Democrats Unlearning the Lesson of 2020’s Senate Races?
Chuck Schumer could continue the successful populism that won Georgia, or fall back on a failed strategy with middle-of-the-road self-funders.
Posted inPolitics
What Went Wrong in North Carolina
State Sen. Erica Smith, Cal Cunningham’s primary opponent, weighs in.
Posted inCoronavirus
Uninformed Consent
Major universities keep putting students at needless risk, and then reversing course. Higher ed is in a tough spot, but that’s no excuse for dumb decisions and bad ethics.
Posted inPolitics
Managing Money, Changing the World
Ronnie Chatterji’s insurgent campaign in North Carolina seeks to expand thinking around what a state treasurer can accomplish.