For a lot of reasons I never endorse candidates, but I'm backing Tom Geoghegan for Rahm Emanuel's old House seat in Chicago.
By Joe Conason Feb 27, 2009
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The June jobs report is a serious bummer, but "the good times continue to roll" on Wall Street
By Andrew Leonard
July 2, 2009
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Surprise: The Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat says he's prepared to find a deal to support legislation to make it easier for workers to join unions.
By Mike Madden
May 14, 2009
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Big-name brands are dying and even Winnebago is under the weather. Can the recreational vehicle survive the recession?
Mark Schone, with additional research by Ben Travers
March 20, 2009
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By Darrell Etherington
January 5, 2009
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The rate of job losses might be slowing, but the rate at which workers are forced to work fewer hours is not.
By Andrew Leonard
June 9, 2009
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The economy shed "only" 345,000 jobs in May. Even with the unemployment rate rising to 9.4 percent, it's good news
By Andrew Leonard
June 5, 2009
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A tale told via cryptic one-liners: 20th century ghosts are haunting the G-20 summit meeting.
By Andrew Leonard
April 2, 2009
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The newest jobless claim figures are setting records, but for the hard right, the real "catastrophe" is Obama
By Andrew Leonard
February 5, 2009
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The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
By Michael Lind
December 18, 2008
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Why did a small group of Southern Republicans turn the auto bailout into a demolition derby? Introducing the senators who hate unions and love foreign cars.
By Alex Koppelman and Mike Madden
December 13, 2008
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The first thing Obama should do is use federal funds to keep public employees from joining the swelling ranks of the unemployed.
By Joe Conason
December 8, 2008
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On bended knee, and with promises to retool their operations, the Big Three ask Congress for billions to save the auto industry. They might get it this time.
By Mike Madden
December 5, 2008
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As Washington clashes over a Big Three bailout, it's ignoring the best cure to the automakers' ills: Universal healthcare.
By Edward McClelland
November 26, 2008
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Pressure to settle cases means that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration collects less than half the fines it levies. But the real cost comes in worker health and safety.
By Robert Lewis
September 17, 2008
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Remembering how they were outgunned in 1994, advocates for universal healthcare plan a lavishly financed post-election effort
By Ed Kilgore
July 9, 2008
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Bowie Kuhn isn't the only baseball notable who should never have been enshrined in Cooperstown.
By Lee Lowenfish
December 17, 2007
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Bowie Kuhn in, Marvin Miller snubbed. The baseball Hall of Fame embarrasses itself. Plus: Evel Knievel.
By King Kaufman
December 4, 2007
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With unemployment the worst in the nation, and the government on the verge of shutdown, it's time for my home state to drive toward a new way of life.
By Edward McClelland
September 28, 2007
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Retrenchment is the order of the day, as workers put away their signs and get back on the job
By Andrew Leonard
September 26, 2007
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Paging Marx and Engels: Please pick up the virtual white courtesy telephone
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2007
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Are the machete-wielding workers who slave in Brazil's sugar cane fields a liability for multinational agribusinesses?
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2007
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Costs are booming in the Wild West oil sands territory of Alberta. Fie on those workers spoiling the party for everyone else
By Andrew Leonard
August 15, 2007
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What does the American labor movement hope to gain by hobnobbing with China's government lapdog union?
By Andrew Leonard
May 23, 2007
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Talk about quick work. Economist Dani Rodrik joins the blogosphere and presto: Republicans and Democrats agree to a trade deal
By Andrew Leonard
May 11, 2007
Wherein I break one of my rules
America gets laid off, Goldman Sachs employees get a raise
Specter gets ready to flip back on union bill
The RV's last roundup
Praise-based Economy: How Much Are You a Part of It?
The economic Civil War
Meet the GOP's wrecking crew
Spend, Obama, spend! And save jobs
Detroit revs up its bailout begging
Detroit isn't dead yet
"For these companies the penalties are pocket change"
Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Turn out the lights, Michigan
Glenn Greenwald