The best Labor newsletters

Ravenous is a worker-owned publication that mixes personal essays on restaurants, food and culture with reporting on issues like restaurant data collection and the role of food in community life. Readers get opinionated, first-person takes on specific dining experiences alongside pieces on the broader social meaning of what people eat.

Hamilton Nolan's newsletter offers sharp, opinionated commentary on labor, politics and power, covering issues like home insurance affordability, Democratic factional fights and union dynamics. Readers get a clear left-leaning argument per issue plus reported investigations such as an undercover look at a police union convention.

Dada Drummer Almanach mixes literary prose poems with essays on music and art. Its recent issues argue against generative AI in music and critique the financial bubble around AI, with a strong personal voice.

Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine is a tech-critical newsletter on AI, Silicon Valley power and labor, mixing reporting, interviews and essays. Readers get analysis of fights like California's billionaire wealth tax and AI worker protections, plus critical takes on AI hype and the Luddite tradition.

Bay Area Current publishes left-leaning local news focused on working-class issues in the Bay Area, especially tenant organizing and housing fights. It also includes reading recommendations and an advice column.

Payday Report is a Pittsburgh-based labor publication that produces investigative reporting and video coverage, currently focused on the Brazilian presidential election. Issues mix original reporting with fundraising appeals for its Brazil coverage.

Dollars & Sense is a progressive economics publication that analyses inequality, public finance, inflation policy and labor through a left-leaning lens. Readers get essays, interviews and explainers on how policy shapes wages, wealth and the economy.

A witty weekly-ish roundup of recent news and science, covering labor organizing at Wizards of the Coast, a butterfly-catching study, a newly discovered Bolivian cat species, and US federal deployments, with a conversational, joke-laden voice. Readers get brief, opinionated takes on stories they may have missed, framed with humor.

A Teamblind company blog that publishes survey-based workplace research and short tech-industry digests, drawing on Blind user polls and comments. Readers get data on employee trust in internal reporting, layoffs and H1B news, and sentiment about Chinese versus US AI models.

A populist, working-class-focused newsletter that profiles corporate and financial executives it calls 'Shepherds' and argues that systemic economic pressures are deliberately used to keep workers compliant. It mixes survival tips, community polls, video recaps and urgent updates on topics like medical debt, rent and Wall Street consolidation.

A weekly roundup of good news and progress from the US political resistance, pairing short summaries of court rulings, labor wins and grassroots mobilizations with calls to action such as the No Kings events. It mostly reports and links to outside coverage, with an explicit advocacy framing throughout.