Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

News

Republican Senate leadership unable to scuttle debate on U.S. wars
September 13, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
Rand Paul, libertarian and one-time GOP presidential hopeful, threatened to paralyze the Senate unless Mitch McConnell allowed debate on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Labor

“New NAFTA”: Canada demands end to U.S. “right-to-work” laws
September 13, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
Prodded by Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, the government demands any new trade deal force the U.S. to eliminate “right-to-work” laws.
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News

Senate prods Trump to move against white supremacist groups
September 12, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
The measure pushes Trump “to do more than track” racist attacks and actually counter them with a coordinated government response.
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Labor

61 percent of Americans give thumbs-up to unions
September 11, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
The number of people who view unions favorably is on the rise, but so is the number of people who think the labor movement will become weaker.
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Labor

Trump’s, Schumer’s and Pelosi’s “art of the deal” draws praise and criticism
September 7, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
The agreement increases the debt limit by enough money to fund past federal obligations and pay for upcoming ones through December 15. It also includes a temporary money bill to keep the government going, at current...
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Labor

Latino labor conference turns into pro-Dreamers, anti-Trump march
September 7, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
The conclave, planned long before, coincidentally began on September 6, the day after Trump and his anti-Latino Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, threw 800,000 young undocumented people, most of them Hispanic-named, out of the country by cancelling...
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U.S.

Dreamers and allies fight on after Trump lowers boom
September 6, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
“We've been here paying taxes, and paying back taxes. Nothing’s been returned to us, because we’re not citizens.”
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World

Would be Mexican president tackles low wages, jobs and corruption
September 6, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
“There is nothing that has done more damage to Mexico than the dishonesty of the people running the government."
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