The Forgotten President
Woodrow Wilson was as important as FDR or LBJ. Why aren't we celebrating his 100th anniversary?
The first liberal Democratic president took office exactly 100 years ago this spring. So why aren’t contemporary liberals bestowing the same praise on Woodrow Wilson as they lavish on Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson? Granted, if he were running today, Woodrow Wilson wouldn’t win a single Democratic primary and would no doubt be heckled out of the race. Raised in the South, he smiled on Jim Crow and did not object when two of his cabinet appointees re-segregated their departments.
No group in America, aside from Latino activists, is a more steadfast champion of generous immigration reform than organized labor. That stance, declares the AFL-CIO, is “based on the simple idea that working people are strongest when we work together and the labor movement is strongest when we are open to all workers, regardless of where they come from.”
The environmental movement has failed to connect climate change to the everyday lives of people.
Before Stonewall
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
Sheryl Sandberg is No Betty Friedan
What a new movement doesn't get about the origins of feminism
In remembrance of a movement that preached solidarity, not self-help.
Who Are You Calling a Liberal?
If Obama is liberalism's standard bearer, liberalism's in bad shape
If Obama is liberalism's standard bearer, liberalism's in bad shape.
Here's a bit of advice when considering Barack Obama second inaugural address on January 21: Don't take anything he says very seriously. For all the hype they receive, inaugural addresses rarely foretell what a president will accomplish in office. In fact, the men who utter grand principles and make big promises every four years often contradict them, willingly or not, soon after they begin their terms.
We'll All Miss Unions When They're Gone
Unionists have never enjoyed true security in America. During the early nineteenth century, they got hauled into court for “conspiring to restrain trade.” In the heyday of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, they got accused of fomenting violence and revolution.
