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The GM strike is proof that unions are still a powerful force for change
If America’s labor unions are supposed to be dying, United Auto Workers didn’t get the memo. At 12:01 a.m. Monday, 49,000 UAW members walked off their jobs at General Motors after talks broke down between union representatives and management. The GM…
By Ezra Marcus
Justin Trudeau wore racist makeup not once, not twice, but at least three times
By Kimberly Alters
Just one month before the country's national election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing public outrage over racist photos that have resurfaced from his past. In two separate images, one from when he was in high school and another…
New Mexico's bold plan for free college tuition is a blueprint for the future
By Ezra Marcus
If you’re a New Mexico high school student with college ambitions, your future may have just gotten a lot less expensive. On Wednesday, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced a plan to eliminate tuition at all of the state’s…
Taylor Swift wants you to know that the Kanye fight messed with her head — and her politics
By Ezra Marcus
For years, Taylor Swift famously avoided any discussion of politics, maintaining a silence so total that it was eventually co-opted by white supremacists. But in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Swift built on her previous tentative steps toward…
This devastating PSA shows what back-to-school has become in 2019
By Kimberly Alters
It's mid-September. The air is crisp, yellow buses are out, back-to-school commercials are on the air. But this Sandy Hook Promise ad, produced by the Newtown, Connecticut-based nonprofit organization that focuses on preventing gun violence in…
Israel's election is a referendum on human rights
By Ezra Marcus
On Tuesday, Israelis went to the polls for the second time in less than six months. They have their embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thank for the repeated opportunities to exercise their franchise. Exit polls in the Israeli election…
The GM strike is proof that unions are still a powerful force for change
By Ezra Marcus
If America’s labor unions are supposed to be dying, United Auto Workers didn’t get the memo. At 12:01 a.m. Monday, 49,000 UAW members walked off their jobs at General Motors after talks broke down between union representatives and management. The GM…
Could Brett Kavanaugh really be impeached?
By Ezra Marcus
In the early days of the United States, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. A staunch supporter of the Federalist Party, Chase aggravated President Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Republicans with his…
Who won the third Democratic debate, according to a former campaign hack
By Andra Belknap
As a political communications professional who has run numerous debate prep sessions, I can tell you this: Any debate including 10 candidates is more of a joint press conference than a policy debate. They are, however, the only debates we have.…
That GOP ad attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was typical, irresponsible cable news
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
During the third Democratic debate on Thursday, a series of mostly inane ads aired between the candidates’ sparring. It was business as usual for a cable news debate — except for one shocking spot, which garnered plenty of outrage. It was an ad…
Unpacking Joe Biden's baffling response to the question of reparations
By Kimberly Alters
All 10 of the candidates who took the stage Thursday in Houston for the third Democratic debate had to fight to get there. Some, like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, had barely scraped…