Berry Craig

Lifelong Kentuckian Berry Craig is an emeritus professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah and a freelance writer. He is a member of American Federation of Teachers Local 1360, recording secretary for the Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council, webmaster-editor for the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, and a member of the state AFL-CIO Executive Board. His ninth book on the history of his state, “Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy,” was published by the University Press of Kentucky in November 2020.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Berry Craig

Opinion

Public infrastructure jobs helped beat the Great Depression; they can do it again
April 9, 2021 By Berry Craig
Today's Democrats would do well to learn from the legacy of the government jobs programs that helped save the country in the 1930s.
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Opinion

With rural whites massively outnumbering Black voters, Kentucky Republicans make voting easier
March 26, 2021 By Berry Craig
Kentucky is less than 9% African American, so unlike in Georgia, Republican legislators here saw no need to curb minority voting.
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Opinion

Mitch McConnell’s No. 1 priority is Mitch McConnell
March 19, 2021 By Berry Craig
Gandhi put “politics without principles” on his list of “seven social sins.” McConnell has been guilty of it since he first ran for Senate in 1984.
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Labor

Rep. Tim Ryan’s PRO Act speech goes viral: “Help the damn workers”
March 10, 2021 By Berry Craig
Heaven forbid Congress do anything to help workers.
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Opinion

Biden just proved to workers that he’s got our backs
March 2, 2021 By Berry Craig
86 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the most pro-union statement ever uttered by an American president. Joe Biden just broke his record.
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Opinion

Republicans’ working class hero re-branding isn’t fooling anyone
February 24, 2021 By Berry Craig
It's time to put up or shut up.
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Opinion

Profiles in cowardice: Mitch McConnell
February 18, 2021 By Berry Craig
Mitch McConnell and 42 fellow Republicans who acquitted Trump earned their niche in history, right next to the jurists at Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch trial.
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Labor

Labor, aiming to oust McConnell, campaigns hard for Grimes in Kentucky
October 8, 2014 By Berry Craig
"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one," legendary former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn famously once observed.
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