The UAW won a historic victory when GM agreed that workers in EV and battery factories would be covered by the union contract. Harold Meyerson comments on that, and on Israel’s war with Hamas.
Plus: Voters in Maine will decide next month whether to turn the state’s private utilities public. If that happens, it would be a huge step toward dealing with the climate crisis, and a model for other states. Bill McKibben will explain.
Also: Two girls grew up in the 1980s and ’90s in a small town in Arkansas. One made it out and became a successful journalist and writer; her best friend, who had been super smart as a kid, fell into drugs, getting pregnant too young, and petty crime. How did their lives turn out to be so different? Katha Pollitt talks about the wonderful new memoir by Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls.
Labor's Big Win: Harold Meyerson; Growing up in the Sixties: Drew Faust
Hollywood Strikes: Light at the end of the tunnel? Harold Meyerson; plus Erwin Chemerinsky on the Georgia Indictments
Sasha Abramsky on the Culture Wars; D.D. Guttenplan on Cornel West; Francine Prose on "Vixen"
Abortion Rights Win Again: Harold Meyerson; Trump's Jan. 6 indictment: Erwin Chemerinsky; "Barbie": Katha Pollitt
Trump's Big Crime: Harold Meyerson; "Barbie" and Oppie: John Powers
Teamsters victory: Harold Meyerson; Hollywood strikes update: Ben Schwartz; Ireland since the '50s: Fintan O'Toole
Trump's worst crimes: Harold Meyerson; War on Black Studies: Robin Kelley; RFK Jr.: Joan Walsh
Actors on Strike: Harold Meyerson; The Supremes in 2023: David Cole; Cornel West: D.D. Guttenplan
LA's Summer of Strikes: Harold Meyerson; After Affirmative Action: John Nichols; Writers and Politics: Adam Shatz
L.A. Strikes: Harold Meyerson; Abortion Borderlands: Amy Littlefield; 'Learning to Drive': Katha Pollitt
Democrats and Working Class Voters: Katie Rader; Doctors vs. Hospitals: Eyal Press; Biden and 'Freedom': Eric Foner
Cornel West Should Not be Running for President: Joan Walsh; plus Katha Pollitt on divorce and Brenda Stevenson on the enslaved Black family
Actors, Dock Workers, threaten strikes: Harold Meyerson; Shasta County Takeover: Sasha Abramsky; Black Migration: Isabel Wilkerson
Biden's Debt Deal: Harold Meyerson; The Oklahoma City Bombing: Jeffrey Toobin; Margo Jefferson's Memoir
Minnesota Takes the Lead: Harold Meyerson; plus Eyal Press on Planned Parenthood and Christopher Leonard on the Koch Brothers
A Good Week for Workers: Harold Meyerson; plus Bhaskar Sunkara on Biden and Adam Hochschild on Woke History
Worrying about Biden: Harold Meyerson; Writers' Strike: Josh Gondelman; Working Class Voters: Senator Sherrod Brown
The Writers' Strike: Harold Meyerson; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Clarence Thomas and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine
Tucker Carlson & History: Harold Meyerson; Amy Wilentz on Haiti; Anatol Lieven on Ukraine
Fox News & Us: Harold Meyerson; Afghan girls: Shabana; Abortion Politics: John Nichols
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