Polls have confirmed that Americans from across the political and ideological spectrum are overwhelmingly in favor of a substantial increase in the minimum wage
John Nichols
Mitch McConnell has since 2007 been maintaining a rogue branch of government. Though the Republican leader in the Senate lacks any constitutional…
The most under-covered political movement in the United States—and there are a lot of under-covered political movements in the United States—is the…
Alexander Cockburn and I met in the 1980s, when we shared places on a panel in Detroit, where the topic was the latest…
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Advocates for labor, women’s and immigration rights are celebrating a number of key victories in Tuesday’s state elections. In Ohio, voters defeated…
When the members of Fire Fighters Local 311 learned Tom Morello was returning to Madison, Wisconsin, for a Labor Day show, the…
Suppose the Democratic governor of Illinois had proposed radical changes in how the state operates, and suppose anger over those proposed changes…
It began outside the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. A few dozen members of the Teaching Assistants Association [1], the oldest graduate employee union…
John Nichols: We don't elect kings with term limits, democracy is a struggle over public policy John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger,…
Like the wizard telling the people of Oz to "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," Karl Rove used media…