The Bush Recession - Okay, maybe we need a new word for an economy that crawls along officially with growth but destoys jobs at...
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So Much For Local Control - Republicans talk about local control and decentralization, but what they really mean is funding state governments, often controlled by rural...
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More Screwing New York - The Republicans should expect riots when they hold their convention in New York City next year, given the war they've...
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May 21, 2003
TX Faceoff- Farce to Coverup - Well, the Texas faceoff between "Killer Ds" and Tom Delay is moving from Saturday Night Live material to Watergate, as...
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Mandated Inequality - "A Congressional aide said White House officials had made it clear that "they really must have an unequal drug benefit."Yes,...
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Sharon Rewards Terrorist Bombers - When suicide bombers launched multiple attacks on civilians over the weekend, their goal was to derail the "Roadmap" negotiations on...
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Delay's Gerrymander - Almost needs no comment. The gerrymandering monstrosity from Tom Delay that the Texas Democrats prevented from being implemented....
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Kerry and the Iran-Contra Fight - Before the conventional wisdom sets in on Kerry as some kind of careful pol with no bite, folks should reach...
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GOP Loves Lawyers- for Fetuses - Nothing illustrates better why I am pro-choice than Governor Jeb Bush's move to try to appoint a "guardian" for the...
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May 14, 2003
Exhausting the Ocean - It's hard to believe, but the world is exhausting the ocean's fish supplies: Every single species of large wild fish...
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May 13, 2003
Dems with Guts- Texans on the Lam - For those not following it, the Texas legislature is going through a pretty impressive breakdown that puts the minor theatrics...
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May 12, 2003
It's Kerry- the Dem Nominee - This is less an endorsement than a prediction of inevitability, and a hint that Dems should just concede to the...
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Low Tax New York City - With all the screaming about increased taxes in New York-- mostly from Murdoch's New York Post-- it's nice to see...
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May 09, 2003
Labor Financial Scandal - Heads Roll - Want to know the difference between a financial scandal at a labor union-related outfit versus a corporate firm? Well, the...
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Filibusters and House Votes - Republicans have been whining that Democrats are blocking votes on judicial nominees-- even as that same GOP repeatedly refuses to...
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May 06, 2003
That Wacky Texas Top Court - You know you're rightwing when... The Rehnquist Court unanimously overturns a ruling and thinks your decision was so obviously bad...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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