Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.
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Place Matters
As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country.
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Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class.
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In New York City, Fast-Food Workers May Soon Have a Permanent Voice
With the help of a new municipal law, a new advocacy group seeks to become an organizing model for low-wage workers.
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Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.
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A Tale of Two Populisms
The elite the white working class loathes is politicians.
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The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.
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DC Paid Leave Coming (Slowly)
Earlier this month Washington, D.C.’s new paid leave law, considered one of the most generous in the United States, went into effect. As The Washington Post reports: The D.C. law provides for up to eight weeks of paid time off to new parents, six weeks to workers caring for ailing family members and two weeks […]
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Portable Benefits for an Insecure Workforce
Why Americans need portable benefits, what those benefits should look like, and how those benefits can be created and funded
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Unions in the Precarious Economy
How collective bargaining can help gig and on-demand workers
