Remembering David Graeber, Scholar, Troublemaker, Friend
Possibly the last thing David Graeber wrote for publication was an introduction he co-authored, with his longtime friend and…
The Indypendent
Eric Laursen
Keeping the People In Line: Michael Bloomberg and the 2004 RNC Crackdown
The 2004 Republican National Convention was just days away when I got back home from an organizing meeting on…
Expanding Social Security Before We All Turn Gray
Now you see it, now you don’t. One of the most startling developments of the 2016 presidential race was…
Nonstandard workers have nothing to lose but their independent contractor status.
Elder Abuse: Republicans threaten social security for future generations
Donald Trump is rolling out his White House team and forging alliances with Capitol Hill Republicans he once claimed…
Why Hillary Clinton is Beyond the Pale
It’s crunch time for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the most sweeping multilateral trade agreement since NAFTA. Fast-track authority…
The Democratic Party Eats Itself
When Barack Obama sent Congress his proposed annual budget on April 10, he became the first Democratic president to…
In the Bible—Book of Genesis, to be precise—Esau returns, exhausted and famished, from working in the fields, and sees…
Eric Laursen Secretary Department of Health and Human Services If ever there was a part of the Washington bureaucracy…
Pie in the Sky in Eastern Europe: The Ryan Plan in Action
It’s been reported that Paul Ryan is no longer pushing Social Security privatization. House Republican leaders last year “refused” to…