Symbolic Labor Bill Should Have No Trouble Getting Democratic Support
Jim West/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eric Levitz says that every Democrat should back “Bernie Sanders’s new labor bill”: On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders introduced the Workplace Democracy Act, a bill that aims to increase America’s unionization rate….Thirteen of Sanders’s Democratic colleagues have signed onto this legislation — including virtually…
How the Booze Lobby Has Helped Kill a Law That Would Save 1,800 Lives Every Year
Police officer giving sobriety test to young man to see if he is driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. kali9/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a Thursday morning in late February, Utah state Sen. Jim Dabakis (D) had breakfast, downed a couple of mimosas, and caught…
Trump Proposes to Cut Drug Prices by Allowing Companies to Charge More
Julien Behal/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the New York Times: President Trump will lay out on Friday a broad strategy to reduce prescription drug prices, but in a break from one of his most popular campaign promises, he will not call for Medicare to negotiate…
This is the Worst Way to Become Vegetarian
Grist/Amelia Bates Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Peter Coughlin was in his sophomore year at James Madison University in northern Virginia, he was besieged by a strange and unsettling illness. At random times throughout the night,…
I Didn’t Want to Watch “Dear White People” Because I Lived It
Cast of Netflix’s Dear White People pose with creator Justin Simien at Hollywood premiere.Matt Sayles/AP Images/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took me a while to watch Dear White People, mostly because I lived it. I was a freshman in college in the spring of 2004 when a…
What Made Marxism So Deadly?
Karl Marx: His economic theories weren’t that great, but he sure rocks a helluva beard. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brad DeLong points me to Noah Smith, who uses the occasion of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday to muse about the many, many failings of real-world communism: For those who have…