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Life is not a fairy tale. Having good politics does not mean that life will be easy. It just means that you will be able to look back on your life and know that you tried to make the whole world better and not worse.

What socialism really means is public services for the public good. Using government to socialize the things that can help everyone, rather than allowing the private market to run everything in a way that preys on the public for private gain.

Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.

Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union.

Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union.

Labor reporting has something in common with labor organizing: Nobody is going to do it except us.

Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.

The regulatory climate for unions is good. What will they do with it?