February 6, 2021 New Orleans In the latest issue of Social Policy, we asked a gang of folks to make suggestions for the incoming Biden administration. Perhaps the item most often mentioned by one and all was climate change and the need to address global warming aggressively. Receiving a recent bulletin from Environment America, led …
Proud Boys: Conspirators or Loud-Mouthed Opportunists?
February 5, 2021 New Orleans There’s no question about it, the Proud Boys and their ilk are a bad bunch that have to be cordoned off from the regular crowd of disappointed Trumpsters as extremists, gunsels, wild whacks, and bad hombres in general. The are racists, misogynists, far-right, anti-Semitic, and neo-fascists as verified …
John Sweeney
February 4, 2021 New Orleans In the old culture of the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO, where Local 100 and I spent twenty-five years, I would be buying a plane ticket for John Sweeney’s funeral right now, if the pandemic allowed it. It would be expected, and …