Greg Sargent has a good piece in the Post thinking through what it means for Michigan to overturn its right to work law. Specifically, what does this signal about the current Democratic Party? We had a good talk about this late last week and the...
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Michigan is on the verge of repealing its right to work law, returning the state to those that have a basic respect for workers' rights. I, among other historians, talked.
It's hard to convince workers that Democrats really care about them when they don't actually do anything for unions. Yeah, there's lots of lip service, but even when they have.
The Michigan prison system responds to diversity exactly like you would expect a bunch of fascists to react. Officials in prison systems across the United States have banned certain books as a way to prevent the flow of material that they say might incite violence.In...
For the latest LGM podcast, I interviewed Alford Young, Edgar G. Epps Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, about his 2020 book From the Edge of the Ghetto:.
DORAL, FL - OCTOBER 23: Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump attends a campaigns rally In Florida at the Trump National Doral on October 23, 2015 in Doral, Florida. Trump.
The Johnstown Flood happened in 1889 when an elite hunting club led by the vile capitalist Henry Clay Frick and frequented by other lovely people such as Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon didn't bother maintaining a dam on their property. The dam burst and a...
On April 19, 1911, furniture makers in Grand Rapids, Michigan went on strike to protest the terrible wages and working conditions that defined their lives. This strike would also show.
Our post-racial society is pretty great. A 14-year-old boy nearly lost his life after being shot at while trying to stop at a home in Rochester Hills, Mich., to ask.
Every time you think the Flint water crisis and the response of the state of Michigan couldn't get any worse, you find out that it can always get worse. Melissa Mays and her family have been through a lot. They’ve been living in their four...
Other than making sure that black people can't vote, that Democrats can never win, and that women have no control over their own bodies, the major thing binding Republicans together.
Michigan Republicans are attempting to make protest illegal. Republicans in the Michigan House voted late Wednesday to make it easier for courts to shut down “mass picketing” demonstrations and fine.