Unions Get Bigger in Texas
The Progressive
Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.
Election Results
Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.
Alabama Profits off Prisoners Who Work at McDonald’s But Deems Them Too Dangerous for Parole
AP
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
Why the Trumpiest Congress May Not Deliver Trump's Agenda
A narrower majority and a hollowed-out center might mean the Trumpiest Congress ever might fail to deliver his agenda.
How Elon Musk Is Corrupting the Government
Advertisers are returning to X after a year-long boycott. They want to buy influence with Trump’s shadow president Elon Musk.
Scientists Versus Dartmouth: Inside a Sexual Harassment Scandal
In 2017, a group of students at Dartmouth College filed a lawsuit that revealed an entrenched culture of power and abuse, and in doing so, they sparked a wider conversation about sexual violence in science.
Suze Rotolo Interview: Of Bob Dylan, New York and Art
Suze Rotolo (20 Nov 1943 - 24 Feb 2011) — the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — talks candidly about her relationship with Dylan in the '60s #bobdylan #suzerotolo . Interview at publication of Rotolo's memoir, A Freewheelin' Time.
H-1B ('16 tons' Song Parody)
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want cheap labor that they can force to work for whatever pay and hours they choose to set
Elvis, the Polio Vaccine, and Us
Medium.com
In October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent his considerable stardom to helping save lives by getting vaccinated against polio on the Ed Sullivan show. Today an anti-vax fanatic with a celebrity name is in line to be in charge of public health.
How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration, and Drug Cartels?
Foreign Policy in Focus
Journalist Laura Carlsen discusses how Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges and a changing U.S.-Mexico relationship.
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