Down through the years, the American labor movement has produced its share of heroes and villains. The latter includes the likes of Jimmy Hoffa, the mob-compromised, mid-20th century leader of the Teamsters, and Tony Boyle, the president of the United Mine Workers who plotted the 1969 murder of ...
The Democrats' convention and their crowning of Kamala Harris as their nominee for president was nearly blemish-free. The ticket of Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz head into the fall with a strong wind at their backs. But wait a minute, the process of electing a president and vice president ...
In her new book 鈥淭he Art of Power,鈥� former House speaker Nancy Pelosi praises the late local congressman John Murtha, and deservedly so. Murtha - a muscular Washington, D.C., deal-maker who dealt, when need be, across-the-aisle with the Republican opposition - brought millions of federal ...
Democrats dodged one when Kamala Harris bypassed Josh Shapiro for her vice presidential running mate, choosing instead Tim Walz of Minnesota. For sure, Gov. Shapiro might have strengthened her chances against Donald Trump in "swing state" Pennsylvania, though some polling suggest only a ...
One of the difficulties Joe Biden encountered during his disastrous debate with Donald Trump in June was that he apparently tried to cover every one of Trump's outlandish lies and misstatements. This is an impossible task. Trump's fabrications, distortions, and slanders come so fast and ...
The truth is that for a certain percentage of Americans, Vice President Kamala Harris simply disappeared. Now, this isn't an entirely unexpected phenomenon. Most vice presidents, with the possible exception of Dick Cheney under George W. Bush, dwell in a kind of backwoods limbo. Back in the ...
