| Feb 27, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedFor the past 20 years, I’ve walked at least nine miles a day on the body shop floor of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, where I help assemble the Chevy Cruze. In a few weeks, when GM shutters our plant, I’ll walk my last mile. I don’t...
| Dec 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIf you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckle-headism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump worshipers, then I want to tell you about a new report. It’s from People’s Action,...
| Dec 19, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyMichigan is no longer a state. It is now “Michiganistan,” an autocratic czardom in the hands of Emperor Rick Snyder. Formerly the Republican governor, Snyder has been enthroned by the GOP’s lame-duck, legislative supermajority to rule with an iron...
| Dec 18, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAbout half of the nation’s states are now enforcing corporate servitude measures like the “right-to-work” bill that Michigan’s lame-duck legislature and conservative governor just rushed into law. These misleadingly named laws make it harder,...
