The Park Slope, Brooklyn resident who started a petition to stop the city of New York from building two homeless shelters in her neighborhood is the founder of a women’s rights group who “sees no conflict in advocating against the shelters, despite its intended purpose of serving mostly women and children.” Mmm hmm. Read more
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Elizabeth Warren is perhaps the most intellectually sound left-wing candidate in a generation. Her moral purpose and…
After a bitter public leadership dispute featuring charges of expense account abuse and overreach of executive…
Ro Khanna, the second-term Democratic Congressman from Silicon Valley and a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’…
Researchers estimate that Los Angeles could cut homeless spending by $33 million per year “if it provided homes to elderly people who lack them.” Is this wacky idea worth a try? Read more
This Wall Street Journal story about the gilded underworld of “site selectors,” the consultants who help corporations milk state and local governments for subsidies, is an excellent demonstration of why the entire practice should be illegal. Read more
As president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka is America’s most prominent representative of the interests of the…
The Fight for $15's latest win is in Connecticut—the state has passed a bill to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023. More than 30% of the U.S. workforce is now on a path to the $15 minimum wage. Fuck the federal government, anyhow! Read more
A leaked copy of the AFL-CIO’s internal budget for 2018–2019 shows that America’s largest organized labor…
How is it that, against the will of the public, a minority sect of religious zealots can be empowered to essentially…
Teachers at Mundo Verde, a DC charter school, are trying to unionize. The school has hired a union buster. Among the school’s board members: “the Communications Director at Change to Win Federation,” a federation... of unions. How unlikely!! Read more
We all know, in a theoretical way, that climate change is going to turn the state of Florida into a narrow peninsula…
Donald Trump, an incompetent buffoon, is basing his reelection campaign in large part on the strength of the U.S.…
Over the past week, a leadership dispute atop the AFL-CIO—America’s biggest coalition of labor unions—has spilled…
Thomas Friedman, a free AOL CD-ROM from 1994 resting atop a Jon Meacham book, reveals today: How to Defeat Trump.…
The remarkable dispute that has gripped the leadership of America’s biggest labor union coalition peaked yesterday…
Sources tell us that AFL-CIO executive vice president Tefere Gebre, who had been suspended by AFL-CIO president…
It appears that one of the small family of monarchs that lords over the “United” “Kingdom” has produced a new child.…