In his race for governor in New York, Andrew Cuomo has turned his back on labor. And that could hand the state to the GOP.
Ari Paul
Ari Paul is a reporter for The Chief-Leader, a weekly newspaper covering municipal labor unions in New York City. He has also written for Z, In These Times, and many other publications.
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Pushing Back Against Privatization
Two small but significant victories in the fight against the Bush administration’s outsourcing of government jobs.
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Real 9/11 Heroes Speak Out Against Rudy
New York City firefighters are out to set the record straight on Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 legacy.
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America’s Imprisoned Kids
The United States is an outlier in the world when it comes to detaining and sentencing juvenile offenders as adults. But there are finally signs of change.
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Mr. Backlash
Holland: The land of legal pot and unionized sex workers. It’s also, of course, a truly diverse society that includes people from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Asia. As author Russell Shorto has argued, Dutch values of tolerance and diversity are what first helped New York — when it was Dutch New Amsterdam — […]
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Zionist Vs. Zionist
A national pro-Israel campus group took a risk when several of its chapters brought former Israeli soldiers to their campuses to expose their country’s military practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Now, it might be paying the price. The Union of Progressive Zionists, some of whose chapters and affiliates brought the “Breaking the […]
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Grutter’s Discontents
The University of Michigan saved race-based affirmative action in university admissions for the entire nation when the Supreme Court took its side in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger. But Michigan itself may soon outlaw the practice in public-university admissions and in public-sector hiring. On October 31, the Michigan Court of Appeals approved an anti–affirmative […]