View image | gettyimages.com Now that it’s becoming a national story, all the Republican candidates are going to have to take a position on the new Indiana law that for all intents and purposes legalizes discrimination against gay people. (If you’re in the market for a lengthy explanation of what the law does and doesn’t […]
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Legions of Women Workers in U.S. Still Lack Minimum Wage and Labor Protections
The legacy of slavery and prescribed gender roles continues to rob millions of their fair share.
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Selma March Commemorated By Politicians Who Support Gutting of Voting Rights
The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday—the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act—is being remembered at a moment when voting rights in the South are at their most precarious in half a century.
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What Do the GOP Candidates Think of State ‘Conscience Clause’ Legislation?
Flickr/Gexydaf There’s an interesting/horrifying piece in today’s New York Times about a trend across the country, but mostly in the South, to enact “conscience” legislation at the state level that would allow businesses to discriminate against gay people if they can justify it on the basis of their religion. One interesting facet of this issue […]
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Will the Recovery Finally Translate into Better Wages?
The creation of 257,000 new jobs in January is surely good news, but it’s been a long time since most workers have seen substantial raises.
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George Wallace’s Ghost
View image | gettyimages.com My post at the Plum Line today is about a brewing states’-rights battle in Alabama, where the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has ordered probate court judges in the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a federal court’s order, because Moore […]
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To Check Power of Greedy Bosses, Workers Need to Bargain in New Ways
When workers’ power is diminished and people’s voices are shut out of the workplace, job quality and job standards suffer.
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Photo of the Day – Nomination Hearing Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This is from the confirmation hearings for Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General; that’s her in the center. I think Cruz is saying to himself, “Can I be president and serve on the Supreme Court at the same time? I don’t think the Constitution says otherwise. Yeah, that’d be real nice…”
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Labor at a Crossroads: How Unions Can Thrive in the 21st Century
First, stop the self-flagellation: The labor movement lives, and is getting stronger.
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Gertner Responds to Brodsky on University Rules for Campus Sexual Assault Justice
The author took issue in the Prospect with Harvard’s new guidelines for disciplinary proceedings in campus rape cases. Alexandra Brodsky offered an opposing view on our website.