Shaun Richman, Author at The American Prospect

The de Blasio Paradox

by Shaun Richman May 24, 2019

He’s enacted more groundbreaking progressive legislation than any other Democratic presidential candidate. And he’s going nowhere fast.

Americans work longer hours (even in multiple part-time jobs) than their European counterparts. Here’s how to create a better work-life balance.

After decades of anti-worker rulings, unions are now challenging Taft-Hartley on free speech and other constitutional grounds.

The NLRB’s top attorney is gunning for unions’ inflatable rat—but may miss and hit the restrictions on workers’ right to free speech.

Democrat Max Rose ousts its Republican congressman, no thanks to its ossified Democratic machine.

David Graeber’s new book explores why millions of people’s labor seems divorced from meaning or value.

The Trump faithful in the only GOP quadrant of New York City may go for an ex-con Steve Bannon guy in June’s Republican primary.

And as unions’ difficulties in organizing auto plants make clear, where a company dominates the town, unionization is really hard.

Americans’ First Amendment rights should apply to American workers.