The Easter Rising 100 Years On: How The Irish Revolution Fired Up American Politics

David Brundage The Conversation
Irish immigrants and their descendants (our “exiled children in America,” in the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic) played a leading part in the Easter Rising. But the influences and inspiration worked in the other direction as well, especially in the tumultuous years following the Easter Rising.

2 Big Labor Unions Share Efforts to Gain Power and Scale

Steven Greenhouse and Noam Scheiber The New York Times
The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — are completing a plan that calls for unusually close cooperation in political campaigning, organizing and bargaining in states and cities across the United States.