Month: May 2019
As opposed to, say, electing Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton, which Bragman recommended doing three years ago, in order to “force our leaders to have a real conversation.” I’
A handy graphical representation of Republican monetary policy preferences from Krugman: I would like to think that political reporters will understand the grift when Republicans pivot to austerity an
On May 5, 1886, the Wisconsin National Guard opened fire on strikers in Milwaukee fighting for the 8-hour day, killing 7 workers. Coming a day after Haymarket and two days after the massacre of strike
As I’ve written on occasion in the past, the Rhode Island Democratic Party is a grotesque hive of scum and villainy. There are some good people in there, but the leadership in the state party ar
This is totally nuts: Volkswagen will escape a second unionization effort at its Chattanooga, Tenn., plant for the time being after the National Labor Relations Board sided with the company in a legal
This is the grave of Dean Acheson. Born in 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut, Acheson grew up rich. He attended Groton and then Yale and then Harvard Law, where he was blown away by Felix Frankfurter, w
The grown-up in the room is reaping the rewards of his grown-upship. Caliburn International confirmed to CBS News that Kelly had joined its board of directors. Caliburn is the parent company of Compre
Feel the DeBlasiomentum! Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he’s running for president next week, according to four sources with knowledge of the plans. The 2020 announcement could come as earl
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln