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61 percent of Americans give thumbs-up to unions
Every year, around Labor Day, the Gallup Poll runs a survey analyzing the popularity of organized labor, or – in some cases – the lack of it. This year’s headline showed 61 percent of respondents...
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Party like it’s 1999: Incomes finally break pre-millennium peak
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stark reminder of the damage done by the Great Recession and of the modest recovery that followed, the median American household only last year finally earned more than it did in...
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Karl Marx makes a comeback
Several months ago the Communist party in Russia updated their visual propaganda by giving three of their most controversial icons—Lenin, Stalin, and Karl Marx—a makeover. In their new poster series,...
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International trade unionists hunt solutions for downsides of “free trade”
ST. LOUIS—International trade unionists, meeting in St. Louis while attending the AFL-CIO Convention, agreed on the harms to workers from so-called “free trade” pacts worldwide, but left their session...
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Not one penny for billionaires, says coalition against GOP tax cuts
WASHINGTON—Even as Congress’ ruling Republicans haggle over the final details of their 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich, a massive mobilization of citizens and groups is underway to halt it...
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What REAL tax reform—for working people—could look like
No matter our politics, most Americans have a beef with taxes. And it’s no wonder. Working class Americans pay a much greater share of their income than the wealthiest Americans, who get away with...
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For 26th time, UN vote calls for end to U.S. blockade of Cuba
The United Nations General Assembly on November 1 revisited what has become by default an annual ritual. Once more member nations voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Cuban resolution calling for an end...
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Under siege: Socialist Venezuela pushes back against U.S. and its allies
“The crisis in Venezuela today poses a direct threat to international peace and security. Venezuela is an increasingly violent narco-state that threatens the region, the hemisphere, and the world.”...
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China cements “Silk Road” ties to central and eastern Europe
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang outlined his hope yesterday that Beijing’s closer cooperation with central and eastern Europe could help foster prosperity in the region. Li told a summit of 16 countries in...
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GOP goes for win on taxes, consequences be damned
An entire year of legislative defeats has grated on the GOP. Their promised Affordable Care Act repeal failed—again and again and again. Their Muslim ban was, well, banned by the courts. And now, as...
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Senate passes rollback of some Dodd-Frank bank regulations
WASHINGTON—Shoving aside workers, consumers, and minorities—all of whom will get hurt—the Republican-controlled Senate approved a big bank deregulation bill on March 14 by a vote of 67-31. Sixteen...
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MLK’s children: U.S. needs values revolution, not a sanitized idol
MEMPHIS—It has been 50 years since the world lost civil rights visionary Martin Luther King, Jr. His speeches and activism resonated with so many, and ripples of his influence continue to be felt...
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Even on Equal Pay Day, some women less equal than others
Today, April 10, women across the country are marking “Equal Pay Day,” the symbolic day when women’s average earnings finally “catch up” to men’s earnings from the previous year. The event was first...
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Wake-up call for Trump-voting farmers: Trade war will hit them hard
In its usual genteel headline fashion, the bluntly left-wing Daily Kos noted: “Trump Flips Farmers the Bird.” That description of what Trump’s trade war would do to the agricultural regions that gave...
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Syria airstrikes added $10 billion to missile manufacturer stock values
War, who is it good for? Missile manufacturers, that’s who. Since President Trump announced that he intended to bomb Syria, the stock values of some of the country’s top weapons manufacturers have...
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Trade war: What’s really behind the U.S.-China tariff dispute?
There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his administration was considering levying $100 billion of...
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Trump’s “new deal for blacks” was dealt from the bottom of the deck
African-American unemployment has reached its lowest levels ever. President Donald Trump boasts about this on the stump, naturally claiming credit for a recovery that began after his predecessor,...
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Employment numbers and criminal regimes
I’m a cultural historian, not an economist. But, like most of you, I know that news headlines often mask more than they reveal, and so I have three brief comments about the most recent U.S. employment...
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China opens to world as Trump erects protectionist walls
BEIJING—The Trump administration’s declaration of a trade war with China has implications for that country’s latest round of ambitious economic reforms as well as for global economic development...
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Greece after the bailout: Lessons for the left
It had been planned to be a lavish celebration on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis in Athens, a place where the citizenry would hold popular assemblies in the ancient democratic period. The angry...
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