The author of a book on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the reaction to his book, the degree to which the foundation is…
The author of a book on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation talks to Michael E. Hartmann about Melinda French Gates’ grantmaking, as well as potential aggressive policy reforms of…
While American students are falling behind in reading, writing, and basic life skills, the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the country, is working overtime to shield…
There is nothing new about Republican politicians trying to court labor bosses. Before the second Trump administration, the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford administrations all appointed Big Labor supporters as Labor…
The outreach to organized labor by Republicans essentially became irrelevant after the election of President Franklin Roosevelt and massive congressional majorities with a mandate to enact his “New Deal” of…
In 1960, Robert Kennedy’s brother John F. Kennedy was elected president, bringing labor’s liberal wing into the White House, as UAW leader Walter Reuther was an ally of the Kennedys.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president over union-backed incumbent President Jimmy Carter. While Reagan himself had been the actors’ union president during his Hollywood career, his labor secretaries deviated…
More than a century ago, uber-capitalist Henry Ford brought us the assembly line, the mass production of automobiles, a doubling of the wage of his workers, and the birth of…
It’s no accident, as the Marxists say, that China has deep ties to the environmentalist movement. Whatever their intentions, radical climate activists advocate policy after policy that objectively strengthens China…