Portside

If the point of cutting unemployment insurance compensation was to get people back to work and spark job growth, North Carolina’s policy choice appears, at first glance, to be a failure. If the point was to push people out of the labor force, it appears to be working.

On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding Washington, DC like never before. What’s going on?

Nonetheless, the film's central premise is important - and asks us to imagine what it would be like to have a government that serves workers, the poor, and the elderly and disabled as devotedly as it serves corporate interests.

Thus, organizing a union really must be a community affair.

Some things indeed have changed.

We must confront connected regulators and force them to pull the plug. Our democracy depends on it

Cuba, Healthcare, Autoworkers, 2016 Election