Views
Union baiting equals hating
June 9, 2010A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
Read more
Mob protest at Ground Zero takes aim at Bill of Rights
June 8, 2010NEW YORK - An angry mob showed up in lower Manhattan to protest the opening of an "extremist Islamic center that aims to mock the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and create an army of jihadists...
Read more
BP and disaster capitalism
June 7, 2010A Gulf Coast disaster has again shocked an entire nation. The callous corporate disregard for safety, workers' lives and environmental devastation is infuriating and mind-boggling.
Read more
What the economic conversation needs to be about
June 6, 2010The focus on "fiscal responsibility" conceals the real causes of the crisis, and if we don't address those we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of lifting workers out of the quicksand.
Read more
Behind the employment headlines
June 4, 2010Today's business reports will headline a 431,000 growth in employment during May - but there's one little problem: nearly all were temporary Census jobs.
Read more