Organizing Grievances

Don Kahle* writes a Friday column for the Register Guard . It's on the political page and he writes about politics, but from one of thos...

The argument on the left - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com I asked a senior Democrat who's long defended Obama on this point about it, and he e...

from VersoBooks.com Blair puts The Prophet trilogy by Isaac Deutscher on his list of 'Dese...

Mitt Romney the Throwback | Democratic Strategist It's one thing for a presidential candidate to be forced to reshape his or her record...

It’s practically a rite of passage for a labor leader to stress their independence from the Democratic Party. In the end, the alarm bells ...

The Problem of Covering Colorful but Doomed Campaigns - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic So the press faces a chance to learn from th...

Who can spot the error here? Dave -- I’m Kurt Fritts, and as DLCC Regional Strategist, I’m responsible for tracking policy a...

AFL-CIO Still Vigorously Opposes Colombia Trade Deal | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG Anti-union violence still remains at alarming levels, he said. In 20...

Newt in His Own Words: 33 Years of Bomb-Throwing | Mother Jones 1994 A South Carolina woman, Susan Smith, murders her two sons. Gingrich dr...

New labor plan: Nationwide protests - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com The plan comes at a moment of organizational weakness for the grass-roots l...

More mailbag from the R-G: Councilor Ralston stands tall I don’t know about the rest of the folks around the Eugene-Springfield area, but...

From the R-G letters: Ultimate liberal would vote no In the movie “Batman Begins” (2005), Batman fights against a shadowy group bent on ...

Rick Santorum is running for president of these United States and, by all accounts, he, like Judge Roy Moore , is in it to win it . A stron...

A plain blog about politics: Winnowing I can only repeat what I've been saying: it's not that the field is small; it's that the ...

NLRB plans to sue two states in attack on secret ballot | Philip Klein | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner Majority signup lives! T...

Prabhat Patnaik, "Lenin and Keynes" But, again by an irony that unites both these thinkers, the historical experiments unleashed ...

We Work Hard, but Who’s Complaining? - NYTimes.com So, when those firemen took the steps of the Madison Capitol a few weeks ago, I was amon...

Another Late-Night Attack on State Workers Late last night, long after normal business hours, the New Hampshire House became the latest sta...

American Embarrassment - Swampland - TIME.com This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of...