Grim-Faced Union Leaders Ready for the Fight Over Right to Work
Wisconsin state legislators will meet in an "extraordinary session" today in order to take up so-called "right to work" legislation.
Politics
"Death by a Thousand Cuts" and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word-for-word copy of the ALEC "model" Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC-inspired anti-union measures in recent years.
ACCE Wants Your Town to Subsidize ALEC-Style Corporate Lobbying
ALEC is famous for using "small government" rhetoric to push its corporate-funded privatization agenda in state legislatures across the country. In a hypocritical twist, the corporate bill mill now wants city and county governments to subsidize the conferences of its new local offshoot.
CMD Issues New Report on Latest Assault on Clean Election Laws
A bipartisan effort to enforce Wisconsin’s longstanding laws governing coordination between campaigns and independent groups has been mislabeled a “partisan witch hunt” by a well-funded legal and media campaign, with the ultimate goal of undermining what remains of limits on big money in politics, according to a new report from the Center for Media and Democracy.
Democrats Gear Up to Battle Wall Street in the New Congress
Democrats appear to have learned some lessons from their 2014 mid-term whipping.
In Black Lives Matter Protest, Corporate Rights Trump Free Speech
The Mall of America's response to Black Lives Matter protests highlight important questions about free speech in an era of privatized public spaces.
President Walker? Five Things You Should Know About Scott (Calvin) Walker
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is walking and talking a lot like he is running for President of the United States. The Wisconsin governor who famously told his cabinet that he was inspired by Ronald Reagan to kill Wisconsin unions is throwing his hat into the ring, and Walker is garnering kudos from good friends like government-slayer Grover Norquist.
What Rightwing Media Gets Wrong about the Reagan and Bush Immigration Orders
The rightwing is trying--and failing--to persuade the public that Republican uses of executive authority on immigration were different than Obama's. Here's what the right gets wrong.
Should Obama Use Executive Action on Immigration? Ask Ronald Reagan
What the Heritage Foundation gets wrong about Reagan's and Obama's executive orders.
ALEC Fueled Supreme Court Challenge to Obama Health Law
Healthcare for millions of Americans is at stake in the latest Affordable Care Act challenge to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
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