The Long View

After a century of struggling against powerful interests to make American workplaces safer and corporations responsive to their employees, are we losing ground?

"There are parallels to today, when we see the same kind of hue and cry, and fear that America is turning socialist."

As a young special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, Bill was a witness to the cooperation between Martin Luther King Jr. and the president that led to the Act's passage.

Back then, and again now, we hear that the key to prosperity is getting government regulations out of businesses' way.

One important lesson in the labor union vote is how outside influence works so one-sidedly in the United States. It didn't used to be that way.

Our senior writer remembers what the folksinger's music meant to him.

Two characters from Herman Melville's novels foretold the dangerous future of American empire.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.

It may be counterintuitive, but the long arc of history is bending the right way.

DC "just loves its circular metaphors -- spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors."