I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature today: In recent years, American mining companies have undermined the effectiveness of many of these...
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Next week will mark the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. While it seems like a long time ago, in the New Gilded Age, it remains disturbingly relevant because the.
My thought on the McCutcheon case's importance is as follows. Liberals need to quit whining about the money. I'm not saying the case isn't a big deal. It is. But.
I can't recommend this Stephen Bezruchka essay on structural inequality and infant mortality strongly enough. Just a quick excerpt: Everyone in a society gains when children grow up to be healthy adults. The rest of the world seems to understand this simple fact, and only...
I think one of the most telling environmental issues of the decade will be the question of whether LG will be allowed to build an office building in the Palisades,.
“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal's essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate.
I highly recommend Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price's report on growing income inequality by state since 1979. Some of their findings from the executive summary (you can download the PDF at the link). Lopsided income growth characterizes every state between 1979 and 2007. In four...
Finally, someone at New York Times shows the courage and bravery to fight back the Holocaust against the 1% known as asking them to pay slightly more in taxes and.
I know we are reentering the New Gilded Age, what with the economic inequality and union busting and facial hair. But I'm not sure we need to go this far..
The only quibble I have with Waldman's essay is that he doesn't put the Republican deification of corporate heads in historical context. Republicans have ALWAYS deified business owners. During the mid-twentieth century they had to mask that rhetoric by talking about respect for organized labor...
Back in the Gilded Age, every strike, every worker movement, every bit of organizing was seen by the plutocrats as the coming of a revolution that would kill them all..
Conservatives' vision of the future of American work Scott Walker's Wisconsin really is vanguard of the New Gilded Age. Republicans have introduced a new bill, almost certain to become law,.