Republic redux?
From In These Times… “This week renowned labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the workers laid off from Rolf’s in December 2010 and December 2011, arguing that the company violated the WARN Act both times by failing to give 60 days notice or 60 days severance pay. The suit [...]
Kids these days
We set up the incentives to keep our best and brightest out of Detroit … (They) went off to work at AIG.
League of Women Voters – Update
Opposition to the motion to dismiss.
“Were you born on the wrong continent?” now in paperback!
From the New Press… Tired of working ’til you drop and not going anywhere? Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy—especially the German version. In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue written in a “chatty, anecdotal style [that’s] appealingly digressive and winning” (Publishers Weekly), Thomas Geoghegan explains the appeal of “boring” Germany, where workers sit as [...]
What Would Keynes Do?
No country, ever, should run up any kind of trade deficit, much less the trade deficit on steroids we are running.
League of Women Voters complaint
…should you be interested.
League of Women Voters Challenges Remap for Free-Speech Reasons
League of Women Voters of Illinois contends that the state and federal maps enacted by Springfield Democrats are partisan, and thus inevitably affect citizens’ ability to compete in a political forum.
About that debt ceiling
The tea party has a secret: it wants to raise your taxes.
Gerrymandering district should be against the law
There are First Amendment grounds to force such a law, but is anyone of either party ready for genuine fairness?
A (not so) radical thought on social security
Come on, Democrats: think of F.D.R., Robert Wagner, or heck, even Lyndon B. Johnson. Let’s ask ourselves: Who are we for?
