Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work: It Failed in Campaign 2010 and Will Do Worse in 2012
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash…
The Indypendent
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash…
Protest Outside of Murdoch Home Calls For End to FOX News Race-Baiting
Demonstrators had plenty to protest yesterday in front of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch’s Manhattan home. Amid revelations of…
First NAFTA-Wide Union Could Emerge This Year
United Steelworkers and Mexico’s Los Mineros union could develop a unification proposal as soon as this August. In Mexico,…
How to Ignite, or Quash, a Revolution in 140 Characters or Less
On July 13th, I attended an event at the New America Foundation: How to Ignite, or Quash, a Revolution…
Will Auto’s Three-Tier Wages Be on the Table?
Contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three will soon get under way, on the first…
British Strike Begins Drive to Save Public Pensions
Protesting proposed cuts in pensions, about 600,000 public sector workers struck across Britain last week, according to union estimates.…
Like the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare…
Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid…
Thousands of CA Inmates Show Solidarity with Hunger Strike
What began as a hunger strike among inmates of the isolation wing of California’s Pelican Bay prison has turned…