Big Labor’s Golden State: A Tale of Two Cities
Summary: With over 10 percent of the nation’s population and an economy larger than that of France, California has loomed large in the nation’s politics and economy since the mid-20th…
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Big Labor’s Golden State: Rise of Industrial California
Labor relations nationwide were transformed by the New Deal, especially the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935. The law abolished the strong form of the…
Big Labor’s Golden State: California’s Union Labor Machine
While private-sector unions remain powerful in California, the true center of labor organizing and government growth is its government-sector unions. Surprisingly perhaps given the vast growth in their power since…
Big Labor’s Golden State: Ballot Power
No discussion of California politics and policy can omit its extensive use of the ballot measure, and no discussion of California labor unions can omit their positions as among the…
Biden and Lefty Nonprofits Helped Overturn Roe
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has caused some on the left to turn against one of their heroes. They believe the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg irresponsibly…
Philanthropy in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
In his new book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle recounts the ascent and dominance in American thought and public policy of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism downgraded the…
Video: What Do Conservatives Have in Common with the Black Panthers?
Truth is often stranger than fiction. In 1967 the Black Panthers were the known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This early version of the Black Panthers had some…
Happy Thanksgiving Day 2021
"The Statue of Liberty and this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving go together naturally because although as Americans we have many things for which to be thankful, none is more important…
The Black Panthers Promoted the Second Amendment and Private Schools
The Black Panthers were nobody’s idea of responsible gun ownership in 1977. But it didn’t start out that way. In 1967 they were the known as the Black Panther Party…
Hollywood vs. the truth
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] The new movie Truth tells the story of the Dan Rather “Bush National Guard documents” scandal from the viewpoint of…