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Trumka’s Legacy

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I was the guest on today's episode of the Slate podcast What's Next with Mary Harris on the legacy of Richard Trumka and the future of the AFL-CIO. It's a pretty long interview--about 36 minutes I think--so we do get into the weeds on some things,...

Cuomo Gone?

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Photos from the opening of the new Delta Air Lines terminal in LaGuardia Airport in Queens, NY, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Chris Rank for Rank Studios) Looks like Cuomo.

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Working in the Heat

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I am so not happy to have my Oregon time include another of these insane heat waves. Good times. But my work is in air-conditioned archives or wherever else I want to work during the summer. No real pain for me. A lot of us are...

Fuck You Pay Me

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Other than the New York Times amusing continued unwillingness to write the swear words that dominate American life, this is actually a really important story having to do with the.

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The AFL-CIO’s Future

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This is a good run down of where the AFL-CIO stands after Richard Trumka's death. The short version is that there are two legitimate candidates to run the federation. The first is Liz Shuler, who comes out of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and holds...
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The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress The Honorable Kathleen L. Kraninger Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tuesday March 12 2019 10am Hard to see how governance gets more responsible than this: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) killed a hard-earned cryptocurrency compromise amendment to the...
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