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Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away
1 year, 1 month ago

Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away

Salon  

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past — George Orwell, "1984" The historian is a prophet looking backwards. Only recently has he become subject to critical evaluation, with Civil War scholar Eric Foner calling Freeman’s works on Lee “hagiography.” Freeman's work, along with many other encomiums, resulted in a cult of Lee and …

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Increase wages, improve bargaining for workers, and we'll reap the economic benefits?
2 years, 1 month ago

Increase wages, improve bargaining for workers, and we'll reap the economic benefits?

ABC  

Have we wrapped our heads around multi-employer bargaining yet? And he summarised some of research findings, which I've copied below: Improving employment and wage distribution: A 2019 OECD report found that countries with multi-employer arrangements have "higher employment, lower unemployment, a better integration of vulnerable groups and less wage inequality" and more cooperative industrial relations than countries with single-employer bargaining …

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Today in History: November 5, Susan B. Anthony defies law, casts vote for president
2 years, 1 month ago

Today in History: November 5, Susan B. Anthony defies law, casts vote for president

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Nov. 5, 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote.” Found guilty at trial, she was fined $100, which she refused to pay. President Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea wave to …

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Sit-down strikes revolutionized the labor movement — could it happen again?
3 years ago

Sit-down strikes revolutionized the labor movement — could it happen again?

Salon  

Joe Biden frequently says that he wants to emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president most revered among American liberals. Roosevelt refused to take a strong stand against the "sit-down strike," a controversial labor tactic that posed a direct challenge to major industrial employers. In a sit-down strike, workers would literally seize the means of production, "sitting down" in a factory, …

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Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse
3 years, 1 month ago

Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse

Salon  

President Joe Biden's Build Back Better legislation would bring the United States into the 21st century, finally enacting programs that other industrialized nations have had for a very long time. But not if Senator Joe Manchin, who claims that the bill would promote a so-called "entitlement society," forces work requirements and means-testing. John Randolph, a wealthy Virginia slaveowner and politician, …

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FDR once tried to purge disloyal Democrats — would it work for Biden to do the same?
3 years, 2 months ago

FDR once tried to purge disloyal Democrats — would it work for Biden to do the same?

Salon  

Allan Lichtman has a track record of accurately predicting presidential elections, and is generally an astute observer of the American political scene. Kaye added that he could not understand "why Biden hasn't called Manchin" and the others and told them that their political survival depended on toeing the line. Biden's critics on the left want him to wage political war …

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Column: Is Biden the next FDR? That depends on what you think about the New Deal
3 years, 8 months ago

Column: Is Biden the next FDR? That depends on what you think about the New Deal

LA Times  

Then and now: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain posted these paired photos of FDR’s and Biden’s cabinets, making the parallels explicit. Advantages for Biden, because the New Deal remains the repository of cherished Democratic Party values and progressive achievement even today, eight decades after FDR’s inauguration. Another hive of anti-New Deal activity was the Democratic Party’s Wall Street …

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Kelly Osbourne teases secret project with TikTok's Nathan Apodaca and showman Jeff Beacher
3 years, 9 months ago

Kelly Osbourne teases secret project with TikTok's Nathan Apodaca and showman Jeff Beacher

Daily Mail  

Kelly Osbourne looked like a 10 as she gathered with friends to work on a yet-to-be announced project over the weekend. The TV hostess, 36, put her rocker-chic style and slender frame on display while hanging out with TikTok favorite Nathan Apodaca AKA DoggFace208, showman Jeff Beacher, and actor/activist Donny Davis on the roof of the legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. …

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Landscape painted by Churchill, which was gifted to Roosevelt, up for auction
3 years, 10 months ago

Landscape painted by Churchill, which was gifted to Roosevelt, up for auction

Hindustan Times  

A 1943 landscape painted by Winston Churchill and which the wartime British prime minister gifted to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is expected to fetch up to $3.5 million when it is sold at auction next month. Churchill wartime painting gift to Roosevelt up for auction Churchill painted "Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque" in Marrakech following the January 1943 Casablanca …

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The art show of 2020 shows Mexican influence on American art
4 years ago

The art show of 2020 shows Mexican influence on American art

LA Times  

There is perhaps no more satisfying sendoff to the xenophobia of the Trump era than an exhibition that rewrites American art history and, in the process, makes it more Mexican. That exhibition is “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945,” which opened at New York’s Whitney Museum in February and, one pandemic later, has miraculously managed to remain on …

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Column: The COVID-19 pandemic shows that it’s time for a new New Deal. Here’s a blueprint
4 years, 4 months ago

Column: The COVID-19 pandemic shows that it’s time for a new New Deal. Here’s a blueprint

LA Times  

California Sen. Kamala Harris embraces presidential candidate Joe Biden after she endorsed him at a rally March 9. It comes from the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and is titled “A True New Deal: Building an Inclusive Economy in the COVID-19 Era.” “We think the New Deal provides inspiration and in some …

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