New film captures playwright’s iconic family drama about race, community, and baseball
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College, is author of eight books, including Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America.
Posted inEducation in America
The Professor Watchlist Gets an F for Accuracy
It’s easy to laugh at the error-riddled attacks on professors now being circulated on a new right-wing website, but such propaganda campaigns foreshadow more serious assaults on the First Amendment under a President Trump.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Trump Picked Ben Carson as HUD Secretary
Donald Trump’s “edifice complex” explains his ill-advised choice of the completely inexperienced Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Steve Mnuchin: Evictor, Forecloser, and Our New Treasury Secretary
Trump’s appointee is the very model of a predatory lender.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Democrats Must Mobilize America’s Largest Political Party: Nonvoters
Nearly half of eligible voters did not cast a ballot on November 8, and most of them are people the Democratic Party should be targeting.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘Loving’ Reminds Us of an Earlier Struggle for Marriage Equality
A new movie about the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage resonates today in the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Making the Most of Your Luck
The role of sheer fortune challenges the politics of the fortunate—and the conceits of economics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mourn. Then Organize.
This nation has survived political crises before, and it will again if progressives refrain from pointing fingers and start organizing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Can New CEO Tim Sloan Fix Scandal-Plagued Wells Fargo’s Corporate Culture?
Tim Sloan has replaced John Stumpf as Wells Fargo’s New CEO, but some wonder whether such a longtime insider can really change the bank’s culture of customers and employee abuse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tom Hayden Always Rocked The Boat
An appreciation of the legendary political activist.
