Workers won union recognition is some significant places in the past week. Harold Meyerson reports on interns and residents in Philadelphia joining the SEIU, a bus factory—in Georgia!—joining the Steelworkers, and dancers at a strip club in LA joining Actors Equity.
Plus: Progressives and Biden: what is to be done—about the 2024 election? Bhaskar Sunkara, president of The Nation, comments.
Also: Ron DeSantis is campaigning for president promising to “stop woke history.” That is, to stop teaching about slavery and its legacy of institutional racism. Adam Hochschild found the history guide DeSantis wants: the Hillsdale College “1776 Curriculum.” He reports on what’s in it —and what’s not.
The Kamala Conundrum: Harold Meyerson; Covid: Gregg Gonsalves; The Oscars: John Powers
Palestinians and Liberal Zionism: Saree Makdisi; Black Studies: Kimberlé Crenshaw; Walmart: Rick Wartzman
Israel & American Jews: Harold Meyerson; Wisconsin & Politics: John Nichols; Blacks & the Constitution: Elie Mystal
The 1619 Project on Hulu: Robin Kelley; 'The Crown' on Netflix: Gary Younge; The Supremes: Erwin Chemerinsky
Biden and the crazies in the GOP-Harold Meyerson, Chris Lehmann; "The Warmth of Other Suns"-Isabel Wilkerson
The Debt Limit and the Constitution: Eric Foner; plus the 1619 Project, Victor Navasky Remembered, and Oliver Sacks 'Tripping in Topanga'
Red States and Green Energy: Harold Meyerson; Kyrsten Sinema and Ruben Gallego: Steve Phillips; UBI and LA: Sasha Abramsky
Bernie's Priorities: Harold Meyerson; UC Strike, Cont.: Nelson Lichtenstein; Abortion Voters: John Nichols; Happy in Denmark: Joshua Holland
Unions at Yale and UPS: Harold Meyerson; Coups in the US: Fintan O'Toole; "She Said": Katha Pollitt
The House Republican Mess: Harold Meyerson; plus Nelson Lichtenstein on the UC Strike Victory and Andrew Bacevich on "The Long War"
Best of 2022: Elie Mystal on the Constitution, Kelly Lytle Hernandez on 'Bad Mexicans,' Beverly Gage on the FBI
UC Strike Settlement? Nelson Lichtenstein; the WWI Xmas Truce: Adam Hochschild; Bob Dylan's Xmas: Sean Wilentz
Homelessness in LA: Harold Meyerson; On Strike at the U of Cal: Nelson Lichtenstein; plus Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover
After Georgia: Harold Meyerson and Joan Walsh; the UC Strike: Nelson Lichtenstein
After DACA: Ahilan Arulanantham; Hoover's FBI: Beverly Gage; LA’s Grassroots Activists: Eliza Moreno
The U. of Calif. T.A. Strike: Harold Meyerson; plus Father Greg Boyle on Homeboy Industries
Lessons from the Democrats' victories: Harold Meyerson, Gustavo Arellano, and Joan Walsh
The Midterms Analyzed: Harold Meyerson, plus The Nation's writers
The Midterms and Democratic strategy: Harold Meyerson, Steve Phillips; Stacy Abrams on Georgia
Dems' Closing Message: Harold Meyerson; plus Mike Davis Remembered and Adam Hochschild on Woodrow Wilson
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