Presented by Amway: The unofficial guide to official Washington. Oct 13, 2023 View in browser  … Read More

A shared theme in all dystopian explorations of future and current totalitarian regimes—whether China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba—is government control of all media inf… Read More

The House is back, and with it comes the relentless churn of the impeachment news cycle. Republicans are digging in their heels, launching an impeachment inquiry against President Biden, pre… Read More

How race and identity are shaping politics, policy and power. Sep 08, 2023 View in browser  … Read More

Although federal laws set the minimum hourly wage for all workers in the United States, there are exceptions for workers who receive tips such as wait staff with no minimum wage. This articl… Read More

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a conference titled Celebrate the Faces of Israel, Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, April 27, 2023. Maya Alleruzzo | AFP | Getty Images Florida… Read More

Regular readers will know that I look skeptically upon the faction of “labor conservatives” who have responded to the political and economic developments of the post-2015 era by… Read More

Comment this storyComment A few weeks may be as revealing of the current state of American politics as the one that just passed. In New York, Wisconsin and Tennessee, what happened… Read More

Oh the misogyny! Oh the Islamophobia! Oh the racism!  The Republican party has hit the trifecta of ignorance. A party rife with anti-Semites and anti-Semitism has the chutzpah to tell t… Read More

Democratic state senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassanare also due to appear on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday to make their case, a New Hampshire Democratic advi… Read More

Jason M. Barr        December 27, 2022 Slouching Towards Utopia is a “grand narrative” of the “long 20th century” from 1870 to 2010… Read More

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Rep. James Clyburn… Read More

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Rep. Tom Emmer, Republican fr… Read More

The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy (full series)The Emerging Democratic Majority | A Prescription or a Prophecy?From McConnell to Trump | Teixeira Exiled | Conclusion From McConn… Read More

A few weeks ago, Mitch McConnell was complaining that the Republicans’ chances of winning the Senate were dwindling, thanks in part to “candidate quality.” That’s a e… Read More

Big Labor’s Golden State (full series)A Tale of Two Cities | Rise of Industrial CaliforniaCalifornia’s Union Labor Machine | Ballot Power Summary: With over 10 percent of the na… Read More

ast week, one of the most impressive and consequential pieces of federal legislation of the 20th century passed its 75th anniversary. The Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, better known… Read More

Enough for a few subscriptions, and not just those associated with the climate emergency or the vast depth of the corruption in state government.But that's our jumping-off point today..@GovA… Read More

The post Ohio governor signs gun law allowing concealed carry without a permit appeared first on TodayHeadline. The back-to-back wins for gun-rights advocates who want to see fewer restr… Read More

It has officially been one year since President Joe Biden first took office, and back on Jan. 20, 2021, citizens were faced with an unrelenting pandemic and a deeply divided nation. On that… Read More

Readers of the Capital Research magazine (back issues here) will be familiar with the drawbacks of independent redistricting commissions. In the May/June 2021 issue, I wrote extensively on h… Read More

Dear Idaho, last time I checked, you belonged to what we call the “rational part of the United States” i.e., “not the Southern part.”  But Trump’s a hell o… Read More

Eric Adams cast a ballot in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on Tuesday. His base is in the overwhelmingly Black and Latino areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.BROOKLYN, N.Y… Read More