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The Ascension of Bernie Sanders

Maureen Dowd The New York Times
The senator is willing to break a few eggs, over easy, to get Democrats back on track to their working-class roots. He sees this moment as a chance to “address concerns progressives have had for decades.”

Private-Equity ‘Vampires’ Run Into a Wall of Worker Resistance

Roger Bybee The Progressive
Members of IUE-CWA Local 84811 have launched a major campaign against the plant closing, displaying an attitude not seen nearly enough in the U.S. labor movement, which has witnessed 91,000 plant closings across the country since 1997.