New York Times columns

04/20/25

Higher education under attack

Weingarten announcing a lawsuit to stop the federal funding cuts at Columbia University.

03/16/25

Robbing Peter to pay for Elon’s tax cuts

02/16/25

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

01/19/25

Government for the people—or for plutocrats?

SS Bill Signing Flank

12/15/24

How to make America work for the American working class

Weingarten with students

11/17/24

Fighting for a better future

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

10/20/24

The stakes of this election

speech image

09/15/24

Project 2025: ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’

Pittsburgh youth NYT

08/25/24

With Harris, America’s best days are ahead

NYT Aug 2024

07/28/24

Progress is possible, not guaranteed

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

06/16/24

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."

05/19/24

10 Million Books and Counting

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

04/21/24

Connecting through community schools

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

03/24/24

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

02/18/24

Funding our future

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