John Ralston went into bargaining with Transco last fall intending to negotiate one of the strongest union contracts in his three decades with the company.
The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to Shape the Future of U.S. Food and Agriculture
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation wants to rid the USDA of sustainability, climate change mitigation, and racial equity.
‘Tough-on-Crime’ Doesn’t Apply to People Like Trump
Trump’s conviction is not proof that the criminal justice system works. The joy and disbelief we may be feeling is because it was never intended to ensnare people like him.
A Professor on “Authorities” Who Order Police to Crush Student Protests
The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent pressured university administrators and political leaders to use police and other means to crush peaceful student protests.
On Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death
The GOP wants to accelerate climate change, while Democratic centrists are content with slowly embracing it. As hurricane season approaches, shouldn’t we be choosing life?
It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes
The U.S. was born out of ideas and the geopolitical schemes of competing maritime empires, forging a foreign policy approach that dominates its foreign relations today.
Joe vs. good-for-naught Congress: a KO
By John Young Not since Rocky Marciano relocated Ezzard Charles’ chin to an adjoining county. Not since a Chuck Stobbs fastball took a 565-foot ride on Mickey Mantle’s bat. Only in sport’s annals can adequate comparisons be found for the thumping Joe Biden laid on stationary Republican targets in Congress in his fourth State of […]
Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism, by Richard D. Wolff
Socialism is capitalism’s critical shadow. When lights shift, a shadow may seem to disappear, but sooner or later, with further shifts of light, it comes back. Capitalism’s ideologues have long fantasized that capitalism would finally outwit, outperform, and thereby overcome socialism: make the shadow vanish permanently. Like children, they bemoan their failure when, in the […]
Split screen: the statesman and the mob boss, by John Young
The day Joe Biden made an arduous and risky flight to Israel, I rubbed my eyes to read the account of another president’s mission to a remote land. This one was to North Dakota. Enroute to a campaign rally in Fargo, N.D., then-President Donald Trump had the ear of the state’s junior Republican U.S. senator, […]
Red-state rulers and razor-wire envy – by John Young
“Drowning Pool” no longer is just a 1970s Paul Newman flick. It is now a homicide scene in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott is the killer. Even if we don’t know how many have drowned in the face of a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, it’s clear that Abbott set a death trap. Nets […]
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