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New York Times columns

Robbing Peter to pay for Elon’s tax cuts

Protect—don’t wreck—our children’s futures

Government for the people—or for plutocrats?

SS Bill Signing Flank

How to make America work for the American working class

Weingarten with students

Fighting for a better future

Weingarten with students at a campaign event for Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) in Detroit on Oct. 18.

The stakes of this election

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Project 2025: ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’

Pittsburgh youth NYT

With Harris, America’s best days are ahead

NYT Aug 2024

Progress is possible, not guaranteed

Weingarten, right, welcomes Vice President Kamala Harris to the AFT convention in Houston on July 25.

Why unions are having a renaissance

Photo of Randi Weingarten with FEU United members, with the quote "we can tilt the balance of power so working people can demand—and forge—a path to a better life. That’s the American dream."

10 Million Books and Counting

AFT President Randi Weingarten crouched to talk with a small child amid piles of free books

Connecting through community schools

Weingarten, left, with student leaders and staff at Sarah Greenwood School in Boston on April 11.

Ending the student debt nightmare

Weingarten, right, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a discussion in Boston on March 18 about the student debt crisis. Credit: Adam Derstine

Funding our future

Photo of Randi Weingarten and students at the announcement of a new health sciences high school in Queens, N.Y.

Creating opportunity and bridging divides

Weingarten, left, with students at Corcoran High School in Syracuse, NY, on Oct. 16, 2023.