Molly Osberg

@molly__o

This holiday shopping season, Covid-induced shortages meet the long-term project to squeeze retail and transport workers.

According to billionaire Tim Draper, unions are responsible for “fewer jobs” and “more homeless.”

Both trials involve armed white men who deputized themselves to kill, but the disparate response to the two cases is deeply revealing.

Unfortunately, the televised huckster would be well suited for the campaign trail, if not actually a Senate seat.

From Microsoft to McKinsey, a brief tour of consulting firms attempting to understand the wave of workers’ strikes.

Kaiser Permanente’s proposal to cut wages for existing employees and pay new staff less has baffled union members, who only see the health system growing.

Taxi drivers were targeted by predatory lending practices, leaving them owing $550,000 on average.

If Minneapolis had voted yes to reshuffle the place of police in the city, it would have been an uphill battle to enact reform.

Have we learned nothing about the needs of caregivers from the pandemic?

But like most of the tech industry, they’re actually in the business of collecting your personal data.

Hospital cost-cutting and systematic devaluation of nurses’ labor has been going on for decades.

Despite Marc Lore’s ambitions for Telosa, water wars seem more likely than flying cars in our dystopian near future.

Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.

Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.

Does it matter what kind of father Hunter S. Thompson made?

Claire Vaye Watkins’s characters shack up in the rubble of the apocalypse