Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0. Having rendered "A Dozen Titles I Don't Want to See on the Bestseller List" and then "...
Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0. Having rendered "A Dozen Titles I Don't Want to See on the Bestseller List" and then "...
News of gutting collective bargaining rights through parliamentary maneuvers by Republican state senators in Wisconsin has been greeted with a sense of dé-jà vu in Puerto Rico.
Something dawned on me. I think we pretty much should stop waiting for respect. It's not going to come, not for a long, long time.
Obama encouraged young people to go into teaching in his State of the Union, but simply imploring students isn't going to do the trick. It's about raising the public's perception of a teacher's job.
The truth is that the U.S. is neither a democracy, nor a republic. Americans are ruled by a corporatocracy: a partnership of "too-big-to-fail" corporations, wealthy elite and government officials.
In state after state, the Americans whose rights and services are being cut are rising up against the decades-long shift of wealth and power to corporations and the very wealthy.
The governor of Wisconsin apparently forgot that the Reagan Revolution wouldn't have happened without Reagan Democrats -- voters who defected from the Democrats and nearly split the union vote against Carter.
The legislative chicanery in Madison smacks of desperation. It may yet prove that the Right has overreached in its attack on public-sector unions, provoking a backlash among the public.
Five members of the Republican state Senate minority once again are in the driver's seat and they're determined to run the state right over the cliff.
The wealthiest one percent of Americans control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The question now is whether we can rebuild a strong middle class, or whether the budget crisis will be used to reduce it further.
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...
The union is essential in providing a balance of power on the micro level to teachers and employees who want to be treated fairly.
Governor Walker's "Budget Repair Bill" came the week after he ushered in $137 million in corporate tax cuts, which is a lot like paying for your quarterly investors luncheon by garnishing the wages of the waiters.
The same bank executives who donated to Scott Walker and have helped him avoid the press with their underground tunnel also ran one of the most conspicuous dumping sites for toxic financial waste in the country.
I joined first a trickle, then a river and finally a sea of people making their way to the Capitol Mall in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday.
A small group of us LGBT activists went to Madison today to join the tens of thousands of people from there and around the region standing up for unio...
As brazen as Walker was by stripping workers of their rights in the workplace, he can't strip their democratic right to check his abuse of power at the ballot box.
The question still remains: In what backwards universe could adults allow this deplorable situation to fester?
From our air and water to our teachers and nurses, the corrosive hold of corporate interests on our political system is damaging all of our most precious resources.
Rather than race to the bottom, where no one has rights, why shouldn't we work together to ensure that everyone does?
In recent history Americans became complacent in the idea that their politicians would make things right, if only they kept throwing the bums out and replacing them, with new bums.