The Tragedy of Al Jazeera America’s Demise
Skeptics said it wouldn’t last, and they were right. Al Jazeera America launched in the summer of 2013, a spin-off…
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Ari Paul
The Decades-Long Battle to Integrate the NY Fire Department Continues
While much of New York City’s political class was on vacation in the last week of August, the head…
Forget About Christie, Worry About Cuomo
Watching Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie battle off emerging details about the closing of the George Washington Bridge…
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In the Mayor’s Race, Labor Endorses Division
Most of the leading Democratic candidates for New York City mayor can honestly brag about having the backing of…
In the Mayor’s Race, Labor Endorses Division
Most of the Democratic candidates for New York City mayor can brag without deceit about having the backing of…
Who is to blame for organized labor’s descent into political irrelevancy? Ronald Reagan? The Koch brothers? Good answers, but…
Who is to blame for organized labor’s decent in political irrelevancy? Ronald Reagan? The Koch brothers? Good answers, but…
Workaholism and Zero Dark Thirty
A lot has been said already about the depictions of torture by CIA agents against detainees in Zero…
For Sandy’s Responders, Saying Thanks Isn’t Enough
On the night Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall, I huddled in my north Brooklyn apartment with a police scanner…
For Sandy’s Responders, Saying Thanks Isn’t Enough
As I was huddled in my north Brooklyn apartment on the night Hurricane Sandy made devastating landfall, I…