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In 2005, Rodney Conway and his wife, Vicki, paid $340,000 for their 950-square-foot two-bedroom home in Richmond, California, a blue-collar city in…
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.
Although the U.S. is only democratic country without guaranteed paid vacations, most Americans manage to find some time during the summer to…
Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the “Paul Revere of ecology,” Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America’s most prominent modern environmentalist. But unlike…
Here's what they don't teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she…
Today is Pete Seeger's 93rd birthday. What's an appropriate gift for the most influential folk artist of the 20th century? A few…
"I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," Frank Luntz, an influential GOP pollster and strategist, warned the Republican…
If anyone doubts there is a new mood of change since Barack Obama was elected president, they should ask the factory workers…
In two so-called “red” states that favored George W. Bush on November 2, voters also overwhelmingly approved ballot measures to raise the…