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Here’s what’s different from the past 40 years — and what’s the same
U.S. workers have been striking in startling numbers. Will that continue?
Looking at more than 100 years of data, we found several factors associated with strikes.
Why won’t Congress really investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia?
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How to get paid what you're owed, in three easy steps. (Okay, maybe not so easy.)
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How to get paid what you’re owed, in three easy steps. (Okay, maybe not so easy.)
[caption id="attachment_29167" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] Women cannery workers, a Works Progress
How Supreme Court justices 'benchslapped' each other in the Hobby Lobby case
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How Supreme Court justices ‘benchslapped’ each other in the Hobby Lobby case
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Is Recess Over?
[caption id="attachment_5237" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] The Senate, indisputably in session.
The Nuclear Senate, Defused
All three senators of the Great Triumverate of Senate history
Speak softly … and carry a nuclear stick
The Teddy Roosevelt-Harry Reid analogy ain't great, I know. But
Recess is Over?
You will recall that in January 2012, President Obama named
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Jon Bernstein has an interesting post up today about the
Those Recess Appointments
Almost fifteen years ago, Rose Razaghian and I wrote a
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Unionization and Inequality
"Ramesh Ponnuru":http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-28/real-union-enemy-isn-t-boeing-it-s-competition-ramesh-ponnuru.html argues that the relevant social science suggests that
Were Obama’s Recess Appointments Really About Senate Obstruction?
Monkey Cage reader and University of Kansas political scientist Michael