A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against Big Oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
New York
Posted inWorking in America
Starbucks: Purveyor of Fresh Coffee and Stale Union-Busting
Management’s old-school battle against its Buffalo baristas’ organizing campaign reveals a failure to recognize how unionization can align the company with its consumers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Postal Banking Test in the Bronx Yields No Customers
From September 13 to October 31, not a single customer put a paycheck on a gift card in one of the four test locations.
Posted inPolitics
An Election Day Test for Post-Trump Democrats
Socialist cities and tenuous blue states in today’s elections
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Authoritarians Amok
Explaining Trumpism, with some help from Chad Goldberg and Herbert Marcuse
Posted inPolitics
Occupy Ten Years On: An Interview With Winnie Wong
Talking with the veteran organizer and Bernie Sanders campaign staffer about the quiet revolution that started a decade ago in Zuccotti Park
Posted inPolitics
How Kathleen Rice Is Threatening the Biden Agenda
Rice and two other House Democrats oppose aggressive drug price reform, which provides the budget savings available to fuel spending in the Build Back Better Act.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Fintech Fox in the Regulatory Henhouse
Adrienne Harris, an industry-friendly fintech adviser, takes over New York’s powerful financial regulator.
Posted inPolitics
Cuomo Leaves, but a Corrupt Political Culture Remains in New York
The structure of state government, with its centralized power and few ethical checks, invites scandal after scandal.
