Unless a mass movement rises to counter the war on government and unions, current trends will likely continue.
Working in America
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The Dance of Liberals and Radicals
As LBJ and MLK needed each other, so does today’s left-of-center establishment need the leftist vanguard—and vice-versa.
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At National Gathering, Firefighters Not Impressed By Potential GOP Candidates
Ted Cruz elicited more grumbles than laughs with jokes about Hillary Clinton and the IRS. The rest of the Republican presidential field didn’t fare much better.
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Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.
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NYU Graduate Students Win Historic Victory
After over a year of tense negotiations, a tentative agreement is a major win, and the result of a renewed push to mobilize the Manhattan campus.
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There Are Nearly Six Unemployed Construction Workers for Every Construction Job Opening
If today’s labor market woes were the result of skills shortages, this would not be the case.
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Will the Fed Kill the Recovery Again?
The latest assumption by the chorus of inflation-hawks is that the central bank could and should raise rates as early as June.
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Saving Obama from a Bad Trade Deal
Republican intransigence may have saved the president’s legacy—from himself.
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CPAC Labor Panel Does GOP No Favors in Outreach to Latinos, Women
Organizing among fast-food workers and home health-care aides has clearly gotten under the skin of anti-labor leaders—even as they boast of another anti-union triumph in Wisconsin.
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The Real Problem With What Scott Walker Said About ISIS
View image | gettyimages.com Scott Walker is learning that when you want to play in the big leagues, things move pretty fast. And when you’re a governor without foreign policy experience, sometimes you can get a little tripped up trying to show how what you’ve done in your state prepares you for dealing with international […]
