If Seattle’s agreement sticks, SEIU’s David Rolf and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray can claim credit for devising a form of collective bargaining that benefits workers with no ties whatever to unions.
Poverty & Wealth
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What Drives Credit Card Debt?
Data debunks the popular belief that one’s character is a factor in accumulating debt.
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Who’s Got the Political Will to Save the Middle Class?
The changes that are necessary to arrest this decline are so fundamental that they virtually require a new political order.Â
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What Piketty Leaves Out
Despite some losses to financial capital during the Great Depression, the more powerful era of equality in the U.S. began during World War II.
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The Politics of Pain
How do liberals and conservatives view suffering? Two leading experts discuss.Â
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Daily Meme: Post-Racial America From Hell
It’s been quite a week in post-racial America, beginning with a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that upheld the results of a ballot measure that barred the use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process used by the University of Michigan, and exploded this weekend with the utterances, attributed to NBA team-owner Donald Sterling […]
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Pardon Me, Mr. President?
By appointing an advocate for defendants’ rights as the new pardon attorney, the Obama administration has signaled it is serious about commuting drug offenses.
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Today In American Exceptionalism
Almost nowhere else is there such a tight link between class and opinions about cutting government.
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How Big Data Could Undo Our Civil-Rights Laws
From “reverse redlining” to selling out a pregnant teenager to her parents, the advance of technology could render obsolete our landmark civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws.
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Race-Blind Admissions Are Affirmative Action for Whites
In 1994, University of Michigan rejected Jennifer Gratz, setting in motion the overturning of state’s affirmative-action policy. Now, she’s challenging a black student who’s protesting her own rejection.
