Target Workers Are Joining the Union Wave
On Tuesday, a new retail store joined the recent frenzy of union activity: Workers at a Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.The...
View ArticleSharice Davids Has Money on Her Mind as She Plots a Course to Reelection
Representative Sharice Davids, the lone Democrat representing a district in Kansas, faces a difficult reelection fight in November. The House Republicans’ campaign arm has targeted her seat, and she...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Climate Change Struggles Offer a Grim View of Our Future
Easter in South Africa traditionally provides locals with their last chance for a sun-soaked autumnal holiday. Tens of thousands of Johannesburgers head to Durban, or “Durbs,” to lie on beaches, take...
View ArticleWhat Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the next two months, as a recent leak of a draft decision indicated that it would, it will mark a major turning point in how Americans understand their...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party Is Shedding Latino Voters. Here’s Why.
It wasn’t that long ago that some political pundits believed that America’s growing ethnic and racial diversity would put the conservative movement on the path to extinction. “There’s not a single...
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The World That Venture Capital Made
Speculative bubbles have a way of leaving in their wake dozens of discredited economic writers, whose careers after the crash are forever haunted by the enthusiastic pronouncements they made while...
View ArticleAmazon to Managers: Can’t Bust a Union? You’re Fired.
There’s a horrifying scene in Robert Altman’s 1973 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, in which a ruthless gangster intimidates the detective Philip Marlowe by smashing a Coke bottle...
View ArticleBig Pharma’s Favorite Democrat Has a Tough Race in Oregon
If you didn’t know better, you’d say Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader has been running the kind of reelection campaign over the past few weeks that would satisfy every corner of the Democratic Party....
View ArticleHouse Democrats Are Backing Abortion Foe Henry Cuellar at the Worst Possible...
With the Supreme Court apparently set to overturn Roe v. Wade in the next several weeks, the right to an abortion will almost certainly be the biggest issue for Democratic voters in this fall’s midterm...
View ArticleUkraine’s Corrupt Oligarchs Are Looking Toward the West to Rehab Their...
As Russia continues to flail in Ukraine, a cast of familiar figures are attempting to suddenly rebrand themselves as alleged pro-Western forces on the right side of the fight: the oligarchs. Yes, the...
View ArticleIn Happening, Unwanted Pregnancy Derails a Life
Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux’s very short, unaccountably gripping 1991 book about her total absorption in an affair with a married Russian diplomat, begins by analyzing the “shattering” experience of...
View ArticleJosh Hawley Joins the GOP’s Fight Against Disney in the Goofiest Way Possible
If there’s one term that sums up Republican policy thinking over the past year or so, it’s one-upmanship. At both the state and federal level, GOP elected officials have sought to outdo one another at...
View ArticleWhy the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working
With every new inflation report, the Biden administration seems to get even more laser-focused on a single goal: making gas cheaper. Its strategy so far has been a little baffling, though—as is its...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Love Biden, He’ll Settle for You Hating Trump
Politics today is organized around not affinities but aversions. That’s why President Joe Biden, in the runup to the midterm elections, is suddenly talking about the “ultra-MAGA” capture of the GOP and...
View ArticleThe Geopolitics of Eurovision During a Time of War
While European nations may be dithering on whether their outrage at Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will translate into a ban on importing Russian oil, their citizens this weekend are poised to...
View ArticleGod Bless John Eastman for Taking Meticulous Notes on Trump’s Criminal...
John Eastman is often scorned as a villain of the 2020 election, and for good reason. He played an instrumental role in developing the legal theories behind former President Donald Trump’s effort to...
View ArticleHope Is Not Naïve; It’s the Only Path to Victory
Hope is important, now more than ever. I don’t suggest that we can or should be blindly optimistic. Far from it. Our very democracy and our ability to solve the problems all our people face is in grave...
View ArticleThe Dumb Reason a Book-Banning Republican Senator Got a Major Publishing Award
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers on Monday, AAP president and CEO Maria Pallante addressed what may be the most pressing issue facing publishers in 2022. It...
View ArticleBiden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy
Last week, President Joe Biden met with several labor organizers, some fresh from offering testimony on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office. The confab, put together by Vice President Kamala Harris, was...
View ArticleThe Buffalo Shooting Is the Latest White Rage Backlash, Brought to You by the...
Would this Buffalo shooting have happened if Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson didn’t exist? Maybe. But the gunman, Payton Gendron, is still alive and in police custody—a somewhat unusual set of...
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