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August 26, 2017

The Cure Worse than the Disease: Expelling Freeloaders in an Open-Shop State

Chris Brooks New Labor Forum

Based on my experience as an organizer for the Tennessee Education Association (TEA), it is clear that jettisoning exclusive representation might have solved the free-rider problem for the union, but it exacerbated the divide-and-conquer problem.

August 25, 2017

Elephants

Amy Miller Tahoma Literary Review

The circus--as in Bread & Circus--is coming to town but as Oregon poet Amy Miller explains with brilliant clarity, it will not set you free.

August 25, 2017

State Department Science Envoy Explains Why Trump Drove Him to Resign

Annie Sneed Scientific American

Daniel Kammen decries Trump’s attitude and policies on human rights and sustainability

August 25, 2017

It’s Not Too Soon to Talk About the Post-Trump Era

Chris Winters Yes! Magazine

Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.

August 25, 2017

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction?

Richard Valelly The American Prospect

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.1877

August 25, 2017

Meet Randall Woodfin, the Mayoral Challenger Bringing the Political Revolution to Birmingham

Katherine Webb-Hehn In These Times

The 36-year-old city attorney is proposing debt-free community college and reinvestment in Black neighborhoods.

Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio

August 25, 2017

Donald Trump issues his first presidential pardon to former sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt.

‘If Mexico Is Paying for the Wall, Why Shut Down the Government?'

August 25, 2017

Reporters grill White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over why President Donald Trump threatens a government shutdown over border security funding.

Guy Davis | 'Walk On'

August 25, 2017

Guy Davis performing "Walk On" at Music City Roots Live From The Factory on 3.22.2017

Nuclear Waste | John Oliver

August 25, 2017

Nuclear waste poses a serious threat to public health if it's not stored in a safe place. John Oliver explains why the United States desperately needs to build a metaphorical toilet for all that waste.