Today on TAP: We should visibly fight back (good for Americans’ health and wallets, and good for Democrats’ prospects).
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
Posted inPolitics
The Strategic Shouting of Biden’s State of the Union
Loud and proud, Biden dispelled the ‘lack of energy’ issue while promoting an economics to which the GOP has no real rejoinder.
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The Incoherence of Our Gaza Policy
Today on TAP: We provide Palestinians life’s necessities by air and sea, and provide Israel the arms to deny them those same necessities.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Son of Bush v. Gore
The Supreme Court’s ‘Gang of Five,’ to help out Donald Trump, rules that the Constitution doesn’t mean what it says.
Posted inWorking in America
Reformed Capitalism in Seattle; Baristas’ Unionism
Microsoft and Starbucks as exceptions to corporations’ union busting; Starbucks baristas as beacons of bottom-up organizing
Posted inWorking in America
Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union
In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together.
Posted inWorking in America
The Auto Workers Go All In
By devoting $40 million to its campaign to organize non-union auto plants, the UAW is challenging not just corporate America but also labor’s status quo.
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America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
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‘Useful Idiots’—Stalin’s Then and Putin’s Now
Today on TAP: Russian anti-liberalism won the allegiance of Western communists in the 1930s and has won over Trumpist Republicans today.
Posted inWorking in America
What (Not Who) Will Follow Mary Kay Henry?
The groundbreaking president of SEIU is stepping down, at a time when the possibilities for organizing American workers may be rising.