For Labor Day today, David Sirota wrote: if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we’re going to need many more workers in unions and a much stronger labor movement. and posted this graph: Sirota continued: This graph comes from the Economic Policy Institute — it…

PEQ = Plain and Easy Quote Reading books — who has the time? Every once in a while, I read something that provides insight into our current condition. So I thought I would share…. Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press, 2007)…

In an article entitled “Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or voting,” two professors at American University have released the results of a survey of 1,215 African Americans in battleground states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia. The results are a blaring warning that…

Adam J. Tooze teaches at Columbia University and is director of Columbia’s European Institute. He is the author of the 2018 book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, and is writing Shutdown: How the Coronavirus Made a Financial Revolution for Penguin / Random House. …

The next big rescue / stimulus package is now being worked on in Congress, and Senate Republicans are their usual obstructionist selves. …

I do not remember the New Deal, even though it’s central to my political memory. I’m 63 now, so I wasn’t even alive during the First Great Depression and the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. …