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Labor Unions Kill Jobs Jul. 09, 2025
Progressives love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend ... Read More
Doom on the Horizon? Sep. 16, 2022
A railroad strike appears to have been averted. Railroad employees I have talked to who insisted the... Read More
Democrats, Please Be Democrats! Apr. 13, 2022
I think we can now say the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull-goose bonkers. Its leaders ha... Read More
The Power of Many Little Cuts Dec. 19, 2021
Working with a budget, you renovate a house built in the early 1960s very slowly. Like everyone else... Read More
The Beaumont Story Oct. 06, 2021
In the 1954 race for Texas governor, the corporate powers were panicking. It looked like the incumbe... Read More
Biden Backs Radical Bill for Big Unions Sep. 21, 2021
A generation ago, labor unions actually tried to represent the financial interests of workers. For a... Read More
Will Democrats Be Democrats or Fraidy-Cats? Jul. 31, 2019
"Trust me!" bellowed the billionaire Donald Trump to working-class voters in 2016, promising he'd be... Read More
Why Trump Is Bitter the Firefighters Endorsed Joe Biden Apr. 30, 2019
PITTSBURGH — Joe Biden's decision to kick off his presidential campaign in Western Pennsylvani... Read More
The Welfare State's Legacy Sep. 20, 2017
That the problems of today's black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discriminat... Read More
Republicans Can Give Workers a $1 Billion Pay Raise Mar. 01, 2016
If Donald Trump's gravity-defying ascendancy has validated anything, it is that for Middle America, ... Read More
Mob Rule Economics Sep. 09, 2014
While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and governm... Read More
Still Fighting: The Delphi Workers Obama Robbed Jul. 25, 2014
The White House pretended to champion American workers this week with gimmicky initiatives on federa... Read More
Unions Can't Win Feb. 21, 2014
It's not often that a union election makes front-page news. But last week's stunning loss by the Uni... Read More
Big Labor's Legacy of Violence Sep. 01, 2010
To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Mil... Read More
