For de Blasio, Contract Talks Offer Problem

Steven Greenhouse The New York Times
New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and municipal unions have a major problem. After going 4 years without a contract under Mayor Bloomberg the question of a new contract and how much retroactive pay is included is front and center for the incoming Mayor and the municipal unions.

Chile: The Right Choice

Editorial The Guardian
Michelle Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which is more radical and progressive than that of her first.

We Are All Wounded Veterans

David McReynolds, Edge Left Portside
War, for those who actually experienced it ... is hell. Those who saw combat do not return whole. Their dreams reek of death, of comrades torn apart, of foreign children shot by accident.