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On July 5, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation revolutionized the relationship between the federal government an
On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation, while flawed as almost all progressive legislation must be to pass

On April 12, 1934, workers at the Electric Auto-Lite Company in Toledo walked off the job in a strike that united unionized labor and the unemployed, creating a social movement that scared capitalists
Alf Landon’s speech opposing Social Security in 1936 could have been made by Paul Ryan today. These are a few reasons why I called this law unjust and stupidly drafted. There is a further import

On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company’s giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-u
During the discussion around my piece calling for international safety standards at the workplace with real enforcement teeth that could implicate American corporations subcontracting with unscrupulou
When discussing the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 last weekend, I noted John Nance Garner’s support for using soldiers to bust the strike. It reminded of just how awful Garner was. And how close
Jason Scott Smith gives us a primer of how the federal government once created a huge number of jobs in a short time and suggests the potential for this again.
- Trump reaches out to Garland to explore what could be done to keep his supporters from murdering a few federal officials here and there
- There is no right to a captive audience
- The night of the short knives
- The curious case of COVID mortality rates among young adults after vaccines became available
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,177
- What whistle is Trump blowing?
- The potential reverse thermostatic effects of Dobbs
- What a dick
- Preparing For The Civil War
- GOP members of Congress lobby oil companies to do more to fight efforts to battle climate change