Most charter school funders hate unions and unions generally hate charters. But more and more charter teachers want to unionize, and labor is helping them do it.
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Fast Track to the Corporate Wish List
The Trans-Pacific Partnership displays a deep rift in the Democratic Party.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Poised for Prosperity?
Drawing the right lessons from the past quarter-century
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Civil Rights Movement and the Politics of Memory
As opportunists try to hijack the movement’s legacy, let’s remember what actually occurred.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Radical Pope
Francis has challenged the Catholic Church. How much can he change it?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bernie Sanders’s Presidential Bid Represents a Long Tradition of American Socialism
Long deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as American as apple pie.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Junior Justice
Elena Kagan is rewriting the role of a Supreme Court justice in American democracy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Wealth Problem
Aspiring to own a home and pursue an education are quintessentially American ideals. It’s time to make those dreams accessible again.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Gilded Ages End
Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.
