Once again I'm drawn to the story of the Maine Labor Murals.  They're safely hidden out of sight where no one will be corrupted by t...

Historically, nothing has terrified conservatives so much as efficient, effective, activist government. “A thoroughly first-rate man in pu...

How many times does this have to be repeated:  There are 15 million unemployed in this country, with 6.8 million chronically unemployed. M...

For a nation that can’t stop bragging about how great and powerful it is, we’ve become shockingly helpless in the face of the many challenge...

Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Amer...

The reasons for the stillbirth of the new progressive era are many and much discussed. There's the death of liberal and moderate Republ...

After co-sponsoring the original labor bill in 2005, and wholeheartedly endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act in 2007 (the only Republican ...