Roger Williams, founder of the Left Labor Reporter, join us to talk about Texas’s failed attempt to take away their voluntary payroll deduction for public employee union dues.

James Loewen, author, sociologist and historian, calls monuments to the Confederacy “a tale of two eras” – the era that they’re about, and the era that they were erected. Some ...

Geo engineering is the deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth’s climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming. Is this a good ...

Berry Craig from the Kentucky Labor Institute talks about using Labor Day to rally the union movement for political change.

Doug Cunningham joins us from Workers Independent News with stories of labor strikes from around the country.

The less Congress accomplishes, the more power the president holds. Danny Vinik joins us from Politico to discuss his story, “America’s permanent export emergency.”

Trump spent 20 minutes of yesterday’s speech attacking the media, Julie Alderman reports for Media Matters.

Charlie McCollester & Rosemary Trump discuss a controversial Pittsburgh statue of Steven Foster, including perspectives from August Wilson’s biographer and the Foster family.

The monument removed from Charlottesville last week was actually erected three decades after the civil war ended. Mark McDermott, labor educator and activist, joins us to discuss the brutal history ...

Resident labor historians Rosemary Trump and Charlie McCollester continue our discussion about statues and monuments to Confederates, and then move into discussing the state of healthcare.