David Vitter has been cruising toward defeat in the Louisiana Governor’s race. But now he thinks the Paris massacre may be his lucky break.
We’re excited to announce that writer and historian Richard Yeselson will be visiting the Hive for a live chat with Prime members (sub req). Richard wrote the first installment of TPM’s “March to Inequality” series, tracing the connection between the decline of the American labor movement and the increase of income inequality.
A contributing editor at Dissent, Richard has been writing about labor issues and the economy for years, and has bylines at The New Republic, The Nation, and The American Prospect.
He’ll be stopping by at 2 PM tomorrow November 18th to answer your questions about the US labor movement, how to address income inequality, the 2016 election, and his TPM feature story. Please drop them here at or before 2 PM on Wednesday, and check out some of Richard’s articles below.
The Decline of Labor, The Increase of Inequality (Talking Points Memo)
Labor At A Crossroads: Will Diversity Foster A New Solidarity And Save The Movement? (The American Prospect)
Happy Labor Day. Are Unions Dead? (The New Republic)
Some of the GOP presidential candidates are demanding equal time after Donald Trump got to host Saturday Night Live. In Sara Jerde’s piece there’s a letter from Sen. Lindsey Graham asking for equal time. But isn’t 180 appearances on Meet the Press at least an even trade?
Just when I think John Kasich is the one Republican presidential candidate who would not be scary to have as president he proposes new government agency to spread “Judeo-Christian beliefs” to places like China, Russia, and the Middle East.
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In posting a map of the United States to argue against admitting Syrian refugees, Ben Carson seems to believe some sort of tragic incident has already occurred in New England. I mean, I’m not even sure how to describe this one. Just look.
Do national security experts actually think that climate change could be driving the growth of political instability and terrorism? Yes, actually they do.
Caitlin MacNeal talked to the Tennessee state representative who wants to round up Syrian refugees in his state and ship them back. He claims he was taken out of context in earlier news reports. What he really wants to do, he says, is round up any Syrian refugees Obama shoves down Tennessee’s throat going forward and send them back the ICE facility in New Orleans. The Syrian refugees already in Tennessee are safe. Glad we cleared that up.
I had thought the Syrian passport found at the scene of one of the Paris attacks — and now generally believed to be a fake — was the spark that lit the anti-Syrian-refugee fire. But upon closer look, the fire had been smoldering in right-wing circles well before the Paris attacks. Tierney Sneed has a tick tock on how the homegrown attacks in Paris turned into an xenophobic inferno in the United States, where interning of Syrian refugees is now being publicly proposed with a straight face.