Conservative screaming about wokeness is a substitute for the old priorities of school vouchers and weakening of public education. Polls show that parents don’t agree.
Conservatism
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will SCOTUS Revoke the Right to Strike?
A case argued this week could give worker-phobic Republican justices a chance to force workers to stay on the job.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: Justice on the Brink
Linda Greenhouse, the doyenne of Supreme Court journalism, considers the crisis of confidence that has marred the Court’s legitimacy.
Posted inBooks
Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Winners From the Midterms? The Supreme Court’s Right Wing.
The restraint of congressional overrides is probably gone.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Conservative Judicial Ruling Threatens Functioning of Daily Life
The attempt to make the CFPB unconstitutional has grave consequences.
Posted inTAP
Is Kevin McCarthy the Next Liz Truss?
Today on TAP: The six-week reign of the U.K.’s PM makes clear that Reaganomics is a disaster in the real world—but Republicans don’t live in the real world.
Posted inPolitics
The Limits of Pro-Worker Conservatism
Today’s reformers of the right have no connection to the Republican Party’s past accomplishments in strengthening the social contract.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Britain’s Tragic Collapse
The problem is not failed leadership but a failed ideology.
Posted inWorking in America
The Conservative Astroturf Organization Rolling Back Child Labor Protections
The National Federation of Independent Business has been active in passing new laws allowing teenagers to work long and late hours in three states.
