In May, a delegation from the CFT, the California affiliate of the AFT, arrived in London to the city’s iconic images: Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and the gothic spires of Parliament. But what felt most familiar was not the skyline. It was the struggle.

As the Trump administration continues to attack higher education the AFT and the American Association of University Professors have unveiled a powerful new blueprint to restore and preserve higher education, just in time for the 2026 midterms.

Artificial intelligence is transforming education at a speed that outpaces policy, regulation and preparation, and the stakes for students could not be higher. At a recent panel hosted by Microsoft and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, AFT President Randi Weingarten joined diplomats, technology leaders and education specialists to confront a central question: How can schools use AI to support learning without replacing the human relationships and critical thinking that learning requires?

Just a week after Hungary’s landmark election, democracy advocates, scholars and labor leaders came together to analyze long-time Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat and offer a broader lesson on what it takes to resist authoritarianism: persistence, courage, independent institutions and a refusal to give up on democracy.

Federal immigration actions are rapidly expanding, with deadly consequences.

Americans want us to treat each other with dignity, not inhumanity.

It was total immersion at this year’s SOMOS, the annual Puerto Rico power gathering of New York legislators and other elected officials, unionists, civic groups and political activists.

Learn how we’re rising up to protect patients and our democracy as the Trump administration slashes funding for healthcare access, public health, and research.

It is clear that higher education is under attack.