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The Axis of Resistance Returns to Its Local Roots

3 days ago | tcf.org | Veena Ali-Khan |Thanassis Cambanis

The Iran-aligned “Axis of Resistance” has suffered a year and a half of withering setbacks. Now, its future is more uncertain than ever before. Faced with the most serious threat in its history, the alliance’s core groups—Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen—are turning back to basics: local power. The Axis of Resistance spans a wide variety of states and sub-state groups that share some common enemies. But not all members are equally aligned.
Safeguarding the MEP Program Is Critical to Revitalizing American Manufacturing

1 week ago | tcf.org | Gayle Goldin |Steven Greenhouse |Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris

In a reversal that underscores both the political sensitivity and economic importance of U.S. manufacturing, the Trump administration is walking back its April 1 decision to zero out millions in funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers whose contracts were up for renewal in ten states.
Why Job Quality Is Critical to Successful Workforce Training

2 weeks ago | tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) serves as the nation’s primary federal workforce development framework, providing job seekers with access to training, employment services, and supportive resources while also facilitating career navigation and regional workforce planning. Though funding for the WIOA is limited relative to the nation’s workforce challenges, it plays an important role in meeting the talent needs of local industries.
What Cuts to the Department of Labor Will Mean for You

3 weeks ago | tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Alejandra Vazquez Baur

Imagine this:Thirteen-year-old children working the night shift cleaning the kill floors of meatpacking plants, their small hands barely able to hold the tools they are required to use. Working people putting in fifty-hour workweeks and getting paid for just a fraction of the hours they worked. Hardworking coal miners working underground, forced to travel miles in mines that haven’t had safety inspections.
We Led Federal Agencies. Here Are 10 Ways That President Trump and Elon Musk’s Attacks on Federal Workers Will Hurt You

3 weeks ago | tcf.org | Gayle Goldin |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Andrew Stettner |Steven Greenhouse

IntroductionSince taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration—in an initiative led by Elon Musk—has conducted mass firings at federal agencies. Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have indiscriminately and illegally fired whole classes of workers without cause or explanation, including thousands of veterans and workers with disabilities.
Cross-Border Shuffle: Refugee Movement Between Lebanon and Syria after Assad

3 weeks ago | tcf.org | Veena Ali-Khan |Thanassis Cambanis |Aron Lund |Sam Heller

The demography of both Lebanon and Syria is in flux, after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Thousands of people are now on the move, inside the two countries and across their shared border—in both directions. Since Syrian rebels toppled the Assad government on December 8, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the Syrian–Lebanese border—both Syrian refugees in Lebanon returning home, and Syrians and Lebanese escaping the new Syria.
Will Gulf Countries Think Trump's Glitter Is Gold?

1 month ago | tcf.org | Sajad Jiyad |Nicholas Danforth |Veena Ali-Khan |Thanassis Cambanis

Donald Trump has quickly made it clear that the guiding light in his relationships with Arab countries of the Gulf will be his trademark transactionalism. In the first days of his new term, he announced that he was entertaining the idea of Saudi Arabia being his first foreign destination—if the Kingdom helped bring down oil prices and increased its investments in the United States to $1 trillion.
Down but Not Out: Reassessing the Axis of Resistance

1 month ago | tcf.org | Thanassis Cambanis |Aron Lund |Sam Heller |Sajad Jiyad

The events of the last year have upended many assumptions about the Axis of Resistance, the loosely defined network of Iran and its core partners. For as long as the Islamic Republic of Iran has sought to export revolution and project power in the Arab Middle East, surprisingly persistent debates have raged over core questions. Did Iran tightly command a network of proxies and dependents—or did it stand at the center of a loose network of like-minded groups and opportunistic fellow travelers?
Damascus Dispatch: Fear and Hope in a Divided Syria

1 month ago | tcf.org | Aron Lund |Sam Heller |Nicholas Danforth |Sajad Jiyad

The new masters of Sayida Zaynab, a famous Shia shrine in the countryside outside Damascus, strode with confidence across the nearly empty marble courtyard, ignoring audible grumbles from the few remaining pilgrims and staffers. Abu Omar, the shrine’s new head of security, wears his beard long and ragged, in a style often associated with purist Sunnis.
Trump and House Republicans’ Plan to Cut Food Assistance Is Even Worse Than It Seems

1 month ago | tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Tiara Moultrie |Julie Kashen

On February 25, House Republicans narrowly passed their budget resolution, which provides a blueprint for the Republican-controlled Congress to cut at least $1.5 trillion from health, education, and nutrition programs, and more. It’s their first step toward enacting President Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda to slash programs everyday Americans rely on, in order to deliver trillions of dollars in tax breaks for the wealthiest.