2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (549+ words) The Issue: President Trump offering $5,000 to every American if Republicans hold control of Congress. As November quickly approaches, Republicans are showing their desperation (“ ‘Let’s finish the job,’ ” Sept. 10). At a President Trump-organized rally, billed as a midterm party convention, he…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (457+ words) The Trump administration is offering American teachers new guidance on how to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 2001 terror attacks for this generation of students who weren’t alive during the ground-shaking day in history. Education Secretary Linda McMahon is suggesting…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (641+ words) California entered the Union as a free state in 1850. Yet California legislators have sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk requiring all large corporations in California to disclose any past ties to slavery. Slavery officially ended in the United…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (451+ words) Apparently, worker solidarity has its limits! While Democratic Socialists of America bigwigs were inside Chicago’s upscale Hyatt Regency hotel telling more than 2,000 comrades “we need to rebuild labor power” at the Socialism 2026 conference, actual union workers were outside protesting for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (502+ words) A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the National Education Association’s congressional charter. What’s to consider? The union, the nation’s largest representing teachers, clearly hasn’t met its obligations under the charter; Congress should revoke it pronto. Sen....

1+ year, 1+ week ago   (852+ words) The New York City Campaign Finance Board just announced the general election debates: Mayoral candidates will slug it out Oct. 16 and 22, comptroller candidates Oct. 14 and 23 and public advocate candidates Oct. 21. Yet there’s radio silence on a debate for the Manhattan…...