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What Can Obama Do for the Labor Movement?
…for a President who has put bolstering the middle class at the center of his agenda, and who owes the unions big time for their contributions and organizing efforts during his reëlection campaign, the onus is on him to do something. But what?
John Cassidy on whether a second term Obama will come through for the unions: http://nyr.kr/Wpq2bG
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"I met Marvin Miller a few years ago. He was well into his nineties then, living in a high-rise on the Upper East Side. He was a slight man with a wispy moustache and a limited use of one arm. He was easy to underestimate—until he opened his mouth, and told you in full, unreconstructed Brooklynese, the way he saw things and the way you were going to see things, too."
— Malcolm Gladwell remembers Marvin Miller, the former MLB players’ union president, who died yesterday at 95: http://nyr.kr/TrM3sy -
Chicago’s Teacher Problem, and Ours
No doubt there are some lousy teachers in Chicago, as there are everywhere. But blaming teachers for the failure of schools is like blaming doctors for the diseases they are seeking to treat.
Read more: http://nyr.kr/P9Irrv
Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Images.
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The bloody episode in this eighteen-year-old black-majority democracy takes many back to the days of white-minority rule, when policemen routinely fired on and killed thousands of South Africans fighting for their freedom. Now, the question many are asking is, Freedom for whom?
Charlayne Hunter-Gault on the Marikana shooting, a massacre and a test for South Africa: http://nyr.kr/Sh2TZu
Photograph by Leon Sadiki/City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images.
