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2016

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Nov 28, 2016

How much evil can we accept?

I’ve been thinking recently about a question Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign: “Does evil exist? And if it does do we ignore it, negotiate with it, contain it, or do we defeat it?”

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Nov 29, 2016

“Right-to-work” is a lie: Get ready to fight it

What a brilliant slogan: Right to work. Nobody can disagree with it. Unless you’re a child or a death row inmate, everybody believes you have a right to work.

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Nov 28, 2016

How America responds to Trump: A new labor movement

Like many of you, I felt devastated as the election returns rolled in last Tuesday. I didn’t sleep that night and I barely got a wink in the subsequent days as I digested what I feared was the end of American democracy.

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Dec 15, 2016

In Austin City Council race, low turnout benefits the Democrat

Earlier this week, City Council Member Sheri Gallo, who I once described as a “Rotary Club Republican,” was walloped in a run-off election by challenge Alison Alter, who was endorsed by local Democratic groups in the…

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Dec 30, 2016

The only good thing about Trump’s stance on Israel

There’s no doubt that Donald Trump’s campaign gave hope to America’s small population of Nazis. Former KKK leader David Duke and “alt-right” leader Richard “Hail Trump” Spencer were sincere when they said they saw a friend in the…

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Dec 5, 2016

California: A place where Democrats still matter

This weekend, I spent 42 hours in Sacramento, Calif., a charming but overlooked metropolis that is home to half a million people as well as the government of the world’s sixth largest economy. Mostly I was there to cheer my wife on in her second…

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Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Dec 9, 2016

Labor activists need to hold unions accountable

Last weekend, I was sitting at the bar of a Sacramento hotel. Remembering that I was in a state with a unionization rate in the double-digits, I decided to check to see if the hotel was unionized. It appears that its workers, along with those of…

Jack Craver in Jack Craver

Dec 22, 2016

Progressives don’t have to be anti-trade

Thomas Esdall, in a New York Times piece today, reports what he believes is troubling news for those who believe in pushing for a progressive, populist economic message. Here are his main points:

The problem facing Ellison, Sanders…

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2017

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