Doing filibustering Senate Republicans one better, the one Republican member on the (currently) three-member National Labor Relations Board appears to have decided to bring the board to a screeching halt by refusing to vote and thus denying it a quorum. In a letter made public yesterday, Republican Brian Hayes wrote fellow GOP-er John Kline, chairman […]
Harold Meyerson
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Busted in ‘Bama
Alabama’s anti-immigrant law nabs German Mercedes executive.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Occupy Wall Street: Seattle Redux?
Could yesterday’s day of action build a broad progressive coalition?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Robots Are Coming!
Google, we learn from Monday’s New York Times, has a secret lab in an undisclosed location in the Bay Area where it is developing robots. We don’t know what the Google-oids are working on there, but we do know that the company has developed and built a driverless car that has already traversed 100,000 miles […]
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Why We Need Occupy Wall Street
The protest has at last brought on a national discussion about income inequality.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Court Will Rule—and Then?
No matter the outcome, a judicial review of the Affordable Care Act can only hurt Democrats.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville
When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas-funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation-one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era painting of Rosie the Riveter. The painting features a confident, insouciant Rosie on her […]
Posted inAmerica and the World
Banker’s Choice
Imagine letting Goldman Sachs and Bank of America select our president—that’s just what’s happened in Italy and Greece.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Return of Sanity
Yesterday’s election results amount to a broad rejection of Republican overreach.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bunga Bunga and the Bond Market
Silvio Berlusconi’s influence on the European economy
