Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published “second thoughts” by embittered apostates.
Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush’s bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind’s revelatory New York Times Mag
Katha Pollitt
Many viewers were puzzled when, toward the end of the second debate, George W. Bush answered a question about Supreme Court nominees by referring to the Dred Scott case.
Democrats haven’t made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term.
On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees–all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE–walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their contracts expire