Journalist Studs Terkel, who wrote “Working,” the classic oral history of Americans’ on-the-job lives, called Marvin Miller “the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.” Miller, the United Mine Workers president for forty years and Congress of Industrial Organizations’ founder, took over a failing group that represented the nation’s most exploited but irreplaceable workers […]

For decades, Republicans have monopolized and marketed the f-word – freedom. Ever since Ronald Reagan, the f-word has been central to their brand, a handy way to trumpet their support for “small government.” Their enemy was “big government” – in their view, the meddling feds in Washington who regulate the private sector and thus curb […]