by Julie Duhn | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog
Communities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc The emergence of charter schools as an important consideration in teacher collective bargaining agreements, and the recognition of charters as a form of privatization, are two major developments in the education policy and...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog
U.S. presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy - instead of personality - is that such a bad thing? The 2020 presidential campaign began long before the midterms ended. Reporters have already started covering the gaggle of...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog
Over the past ten years, I’ve written hundreds of articles on topics from Medicare For All, voter suppression, Constitutional law, to Trump’s gold-plated toilet. None has generated more excitement than an article I wrote in December, 2014, urging Elizabeth...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog
Back during the 1960s and 1970s, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the United States, teacher strikes made headlines on a fairly regular basis. Teachers in those years had a variety of reasons for walking out. They struck for the right to bargain. They struck...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 22, 2019 | Blog
In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven points in the red state of Ohio explained the concept to...
