The Challenge–And Promise–of Building A Working-Class Movement
Racial division is the most successful political tactic in history. The very notion of race was created by the European elite in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution to fuse white mill workers with their Caucasian employers, thus preventing a union of...
Should Companies Boycott Regressive Policies or Engage With States?
The draconian laws spilling out of Texas's state legislature must have caused rumblings in corporate boardrooms. Economically, Texas is a state that cannot be ignored. It has the tenth-largest economy in the world and one in five Fortune 500 companies. At the same...
Wrong questions and right ones
Republicans arguing against coronavirus mitigation efforts have been consistently dishonest, ignorant, or both. For instance, one columnist from National Review posted a chart showing the rate of deaths from COVID by state, starting from January 2020. The top ten were...
North Carolina’s Anti-Labor Record is A Shameful Betrayal of Our State’s People
At the height of his cultural influence, Woody Guthrie took an interest in a tiny North Carolina mountain town. In his ballad "The Marion Massacre," Guthrie sang, 'Twas in Marion, North Carolina, in a little mountain town; six workers of the textile, in cold blood...
Get it done, Joe
On most of the big issues facing our country over the past 40 years, Republicans have been wrong. Beginning with Ronald Reagan, they told us that cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy “lifts all boats.” Instead, their policies led to the widest income...
The War on Terror Crippled America
Eight Trillion. 39 million. 2,372. 4,431. One. Those numbers are, respectively, the cost of the War on Terror in dollars, the number of refugees displaced by American wars, the American death toll in Afghanistan, and the American death toll in Iraq. "One" refers to...
Vaccine mandates are nothing new
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that his administration would implement vaccine mandates for all federal employees and those of federal contractors. He also said that he would urge the Labor Department to look into requiring vaccines for companies that have more than...
The Boy Blunder of the GOP
In twenty years or so, the National Enquirer or some other grocery store tabloid will run the “Whatever happened to Madison Cawthorn?” story with a photo of a bloated, unrecognizable man on a motorized grocery cart in front of a burned out trailer. For now, though, we...
The Confederacy falls again
The removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond today illustrates how fast change can come even when it takes so long. On the one hand, Lee, who led a traitorous rebellion, remains a hero in the eyes of too many people more than 160 years after the end of the...
How Big a Role Will Trump Play in The NC Primary?
Whatever else he plans to do between now and the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump is unlikely to go away. Politico reported yesterday that Trump is building a campaign infrastructure and that most of his advisers believe another campaign for the White House is...
Will We Finally See A Backlash Against Republican Extremism?
The women of Texas are now subject to a reproductive surveillance state not imposed upon their male fellow citizens. In deputizing anti-abortion activists across the state to harass and report upon female Texans who seek to exercise their right to procure an abortion,...
Waning Trumpism
In May, on Memorial Day Weekend, the campgrounds were full at Holden Beach and the Trump flags were flying. One guy had a large truck with a banner on it that read “The Silent Majority” and was selling pro-gun and neo-patriotic paraphernalia. The enthusiasm and...