Your mailman contemplates Obamacare
As this national debate plays out, I hope we all take some time to stop and really consider what kind of nation we want to leave our children.
Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job
As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.
Hire the unemployed to meet the snow emergency
It’s time to hire the unemployed at union wages - start with laid off public workers - and help save lives and clean up this mess.
GOP economic plans signal class war on working families
Detailed analysis of House Republican economic proposals reveals an extreme agenda that few Americans would have knowingly voted for.
What happened to the War on Poverty?
With the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and the passing of Sargent Shriver, a foot soldier in the War on Poverty, recently, I have been reading about the early 1960s and listening to speeches by King and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"Rally for Coal": which way for West Virginia?
The EPA vetoed the permit for the Logan County mine, a symbol of the debate over mountain top removal mining that has been embroiled in litigation since 1998.
Milwaukee's finest: the amazing story of John Gilman
"Once we die, all that remains are the remembrances of what we've done while we were here..." It is because of this belief that John Gilman felt compelled to put into his own words his life story - and quite a story it is.
Nominees announced for “people’s alternative” Academy Awards
The James Agee Cinema Circle has announced its fourth annual "Progie" Award nominees for 2010's best progressive films, actors and filmmakers.
State of the Union and openings for progress
The president's State of the Union speech provided openings and challenges for the labor and people's movements on jobs and economic security, peace and democratic rights.
China-U.S. summit was a win-win
Last week's White House summit meeting between President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao marked an important turn in U.S.-China relations.
