Los Angeles’s hotel and restaurant local is no giant, but it has blazed trails for the entire American labor movement.
Election 2020
Posted inAmerica and the World
First-Past-the-Post Won the British Election. Here’s How Progressives Can Defeat It.
U.S. and U.K. electoral systems allow evenly spread minorities to beat majorities concentrated geographically. But there are options to counteract that.
Posted inPolitics
Did Pete Buttigieg Get Hidden Campaign Support From a Real-Estate Developer?
An allegation of a campaign finance violation in Rhode Island highlights Buttigieg’s backsliding on campaign finance transparency.
Posted inTAP
A Multi-Ballot Convention: The Dems’ Nightmare
Today on TAP: How the Democratic nomination might play out
Posted inTAP
Impeachment as a Derailer of the Judges Train
Today on TAP: Can a Senate trial stop the Trump judges from being confirmed?
Posted inPolitics
Who Is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?
The senator from Kentucky must not be allowed to keep his chokehold on our democracy.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Have Learned Nothing From 2018 (or 2008)
By taking super PAC support, Joe Biden and other 2020 candidates are ceding legitimacy on fighting money in politics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bloomberg News’s Curious Interpretation of Editorial Independence
The business news website treats corporate propaganda like some brilliant new insight, as long as it comes from a Wall Street Democrat.
Posted inPolitics
How Targeting Student Voters Can Pay Dividends in 2020
An innovative voter turnout program that helped a 20-year-old’s city council election in Ames, Iowa, could point a way forward.
Posted inPolitics
Mayor Pete’s Status Quo Bias
Changing the trajectory of the country is apparently off the table.
