The Post gives defenders their say, and they don’t say much.
Harold Meyerson
Posted inWorking in America
What the Teacher Strikes Mean
The white-collar rising of 2018 reflects millennial militancy, the death of the Norquist pledge, and one more issue on which Democrats need to move left.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
What Now for Unions?
Republicans on and off the bench are moving to kill unions. But millennials—the most pro-union generation since the 1930s—may yet find a way to organize.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
National Security Agencies Have Spoken: Private Equity Ownership Imperils America
The government kiboshes Broadcom’s purchase of Qualcomm because it will lead to less R&D and investment (the better to increase profits) at a militarily important tech leader.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
There Are Echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in Today’s Immigration Debate
This article originally appeared at The Los Angeles Times. Subscribe here. Last week, Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, took the logic of so-called sanctuary cities and states one step further by warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned a raid on immigrants in the country illegally. Over the weekend, roughly 150 immigrants were apprehended […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Spoiling for Spoils
In an uncharacteristically civil State of the Union, Trump trashes the civil service—and escalates the GOP’s war on empiricism.
Posted inWorking in America
Paul Booth, 1943-2018
Six days ago, I was having an email exchange with the author of a piece I was editing on how Democrats can both turn out their base and reach out to voters outside their base in the 2018 midterms. We were going back and forth on three points in the piece—chiefly, on whether Latinos could […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Has a Long, Ugly History
The president would fit in well with the KKK-infused far-right of the 1920s.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The First Thanksgiving, Trickle-Down Version
Venerable Donald, also known to his Pilgrim Brothers as “the Shining Hairpiece on the Hill,” decrees a Feast of Thanksgiving—but only for the rich.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The GOP’s Suburban Collapse
The revolt of the anti-Trump suburbs is a fire bell in the night for congressional Republicans.
