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This Time, the Joke Was on Roseanne Barr

Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald
These times demand to know who you are and what you believe. You can’t run from that. You can’t split the difference. As ABC just learned to its chagrin, when you fail to make that choice, you make that choice.

The Case for Delegitimizing the Police

William C. Anderson Rewire.News
We can’t say a world without police wouldn’t work when the places that supposedly “need” police have never received adequate resources to thrive.

When the Mailmen Rebelled

Paul Prescod Jacobin
In 1970, postal workers went on strike and provoked a national crisis for the United States government. Their rebellion holds lessons for labor today.

Mind Control

Gabriel Winant The New Republic
Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement

Unions Are Not a Special Interest Group

Eric Levitz New York Magazine
Individual labor unions sometimes have interests that conflict with the greater public’s. While certain unions may be an obstacle to the greater good, unions are collectively a uniquely effective vehicle--not a "special interest group"--for realizing what matters most to working people.