Harold Meyerson writes in The Washington Post: “If it does nothing else, the budget that House Republicans unveiled Tuesday provides the first real Republican program for the 21st century, and it is this: Repeal the 20th century.”
Benjamin Todd Jealous and Mary Kay Henry write for The Washington Post: “‘I Am a Man’ read the sandwich board posters worn by public sanitation workers in Memphis. Their strike in 1968 came at a time when African American men were still called ‘boy’ to t…
Daniel Marans writes on The Huffington Post: “It looks like Halloween has come early this year for Wall Street Democrats. Costume season is months away, but the trend of Third Way types disguising their plans to gut Social Security as ‘progressive’ is ho…
Susan Feiner writes for Women’s eNews: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s slash-and-burn approach to public sector unions–imitated by over a dozen Republican governors across the nation–is the political equivalent of slamming women’s labor history into rev…
Martha Burk writes on The Huffington Post: “Seven years ago a judge in California ruled that women suing Wal-Mart for sex discrimination could move forward as a class. That meant the women with various claims wouldn’t have to go it alone, each with a sep…