Our letter to David Paterson regarding Mamdani
Back in 2008, after the California Supreme Court permitted same sex marriages and before Proposition 8 banned them, my husband and I decided to make our marriage legal. We made arrangements for a...
View ArticleReplacing Free Trade with Fair Trade
Trump’s tariff policy has brought chaos to international trade and the stock market. But it would be foolish of the Democrats to promote a restoration of the status quo ante. Free trade agreements like...
View ArticleUtah backs off making employers responsible for illegal hiring
The right wing claim that immigrants are stealing jobs is all about intimidating immigrants and dividing the working class, not about enforcing the law. The dirty secret is that the construction,...
View ArticleCompany owned by Trump megadonors imported workers from Mexico and paid them...
In a follow-up to its story in December, the Guardian is reporting that Uline, owned by the Uihlein family, who gave Trump's campaign 130 million dollars through Dick Uihlein's Restoration Pac, brought...
View ArticleDEI: Diversion, Evasion and Indirection
When some corporations and Republicans first started speaking publicly in favor of gay rights, I remember feeling like something wasn’t right – that having allies like that would doom the cause. But as...
View ArticleUsing the power we have: A multistate legislative alliance
The left in the United States has tended to view federal legislation as the best source of progressive change and the federal courts as the best place to protect our rights. This tendency is probably...
View ArticleOur open letter to Bernie
AN OPEN LETTER TO BERNIE SANDERS From Michael McKee and Eric Stenshoel January 27, 2025Dear Bernie Sanders,Yesterday we received your email amplifying your recent warnings about the looming oligarchy...
View ArticleBuilding an effective opposition movement: The Real Deal
The establishment of the Democratic Party is in a panic. They can no longer deny that they have lost the support of the working class. But their only response is to ask for more money to sell a message...
View ArticleImmigrant vs. immigrant
After the election, a member of the choir I sing with let us know that he had voted for Trump. I think that he is the only one of us who did. He is a gay man who immigrated from South America and...
View Article"Open borders" without illegal hiring = more tourists
The “centrists” are criticizing our candidates for promoting “open borders” but the real problem is employers, like Trump Industries and agribusiness, who break the law by hiring non-citizens without...
View ArticleSweden, Covid-19 and the elderly
The New York Times has another story about Sweden’s response to Covid-19, pointing out that its decision not to shut down as thoroughly as Norway, Finland and Denmark has not spared it from the...
View Article"Open borders" without illegal hiring = more tourists
The “centrists” are criticizing our candidates for promoting “open borders” but the real problem is employers, like Trump Industries and agribusiness, who break the law by hiring non-citizens without...
View ArticleBreaking down walls
I have in-laws in Texas for whom illegal immigration is a huge issue. Around the time of the election in November we had an exchange with my husband’s niece, who voted for Cruz even though she...
View ArticleAn incident on the 23rd St. subway platform
When there are delays on the NYC subway, there is often an announcement that the delay is due to "an earlier incident" at some station. On our way uptown this afternoon, my husband and I witnessed a...
View ArticleTrump is a decoy. Don't take the bait.
I have been concerned for some time that people are so caught up in opposing Trump and his craziness that they are losing sight of the big picture — the threatened destruction of Social Security,...
View ArticleCrucial special election in NY on the South Shore of Nassau County, Long Island
Whether you are for Bernie or Hillary and whether or not you are a registered Democrat, you have a chance to strike a blow against the Republicans in the New York State Senate by voting for Todd...
View ArticleTaxing Inequality: Putting the Gini to Work
On August 9, 2015, the New York Times published an article titled Capitalists, Arise by Peter Georgescu, which proposed a five year trial program in which the government would give a tax break to...
View ArticleRegistering voters at Summer Streets in New York City
We just got back from 5 hours of registering voters and handing out our homemade literature about Bernie Sanders. My husband has done this before but it was my first time tabling. It turned out to be...
View ArticleConnecting Hobby Lobby, Harris and Citizens United
The conservative ideology underlying the decisions of the Roberts court can be summed up in the title of Prof. Adam Winkler's post on Huffpo: Corporations are People and They Have More Rights Than You....
View ArticleStrange bedfellows at NYC's Pride March
We just got back from watching the pride march from the front steps of a Lutheran church on Christopher Street which now has a gay pastor. We were taken aback to see floats and contingents of marchers...
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