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  1. One Cheer and a Half for Re-Election
    11 Nov 2012 … Perhaps one cheer and a half for the re-election of Obama. He is at best a moderate Republican to judge by his first term, a better bet on the future than Romney, and yet not what our desperate times need, Continue reading
  2. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Urgency of Fighting Against the Racist Right-Wing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivering the keynote commencement speech at Hampshire College's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
    10 Oct 2017 … Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor at the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. After Taylor called Donald Trump “a racist, sexist megalomaniac” at a commencement speech earlier this year, she received several deaths threats, leading her to Continue reading
  3. La Guardia’s the Name and Boy, Could We Use Him Now New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt share a laugh together, circa 1944. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2016 … One of the most awkward interviews I ever conducted in my life was with Marie La Guardia, widow of the late three-term mayor of New York City, the legendary Fiorello H. La Guardia. She was 86 at the time. I Continue reading
  4. Business Is Hyper-Organized. Shouldn’t Workers Be, Too?
    1 Jan 2014 … Powerful business groups are mounting an aggressive campaign against worker advocacy groups, which have become better organized in recent years. Continue reading
  5. Bill Moyers Essay: What’s the Truth Behind the Sunny New Unemployment Numbers? Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in July 1981.
    1 Jan 1984 … Bill tells the story of Ron Bricker, an out-of-work man who asked President Reagan for help finding a job, only to end up making less than he did on unemployment. Continue reading
  6. Margaret Flowers — The American Dream
    6 Jun 2017 … This is the time for a strong offense, because the only way we will achieve a transition to a clean energy economy, peace, and fulfillment of our human rights is by building people power to overcome those who profit from Continue reading
  7. Poet Kyle Dargan on the Affluence and Austerity of DC
    4 Apr 2013 … Poet Kyle Dargan talks about his efforts to reconcile his disparate cultural environments through poetry. Continue reading
  8. Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
  9. America’s New Working Class Demands Respect NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: Low wage workers and supporters protest for a $15 an hour minimum wage on November 10, 2015 in New York, United States. In what organizers are calling a National Day of Action for $15 and hour minimum wage, thousands of people took to the streets across the country to stage protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, employees in retail and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … My father was a machinist at a steel factory for 29 years. A white male who wore a hard hat to work, carried his lunch in a pail and washed his dark blue uniform at the end of every day, Continue reading
  10. Former Goldman Sachs Director Convicted of Insider Trading Rajat Gupta leaves federal court in New York sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading. Left is Gupta's attorney, Gary Naftalis. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
    10 Oct 2012 … Wednesday was a big day for government prosecutors cracking down on bankers. In addition to the Bank of America lawsuit, former Goldman Sachs director Rajat K. Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5 million for insider Continue reading