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Eighty years ago this week—on September 8, 1945—a little-known episode in the struggle to challenge racial segregation took place in, of all…
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier teaches politics at Occidental College and is author of several books including Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America, published in April, 2022.
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” Trump himself has described his win as a “landslide.”…
We are all grieving for the fate of our country and the world. We need to take time to deal with those…
Someone once asked labor leader Samuel Gompers, “What does labor want?” His response is often misquoted, limited to one word: “More.” By…
In 2009, as a deep recession triggered an epidemic of layoffs and foreclosures, the New York Times asked Barbara Ehrenreich to write a series…
In September 1965, David Moberg, a 22-year-old reporter in Newsweek’s Los Angeles bureau, interviewed Bob Dylan, who had just begun using electric…
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