There is an extensive literature on the transformation of the western US states by WWII. What are some of the best books about the West during the Depression?

The number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30 percent, according to previously unreported data obtained by The Washington Post. wapo.st/3SjwvuO

At this rate, what, fifteen thousand dead in Gaza by Thanksgiving?

tfw your labor union doesn’t promote apartheid enthusiastically enough

Facing mounting pressure from more than 300 Hollywood screenwriters questioning why it had not publicly condemned the Hamas attack on Israel, the Writers Guild of America West sent a letter to its members on Tuesday that sought to explain its silence while also calling the attack “an abomination.”

After Outcry, Writers Guild Tries to Explain Silence on Hamas Attack

The union said it had made no public statement because “we are American labor leaders, aware of our limitations and humbled by the magnitude of this conflict.”

A solution discussed by past Fed Boards and Treasury officials is a steep increase of short term capital gains taxes tailored to real estate.

As heretical as it might be to say, there's a growing risk that Fed rate hikes risk *stoking* higher rent inflation in 2025, 2026, and 2027 How? The Fed's actions are currently reducing building permits for multifamily rental supply. Exacerbates the structural housing shortage #NumbersDay 📈

On the other hand, the Commission on Industrial Relations was a signal achievement of the Progressive Era....

Everyone who argues against defining organizing structures and focusing on majority participation should understand the purest expression of that strategy is the ignominy and defeat of the McNamara brothers.

During the TR and Taft years, structural steel riveters really let their union undertake a policy of $200 transfers from the International to any local engaged in a contract dispute for the purposes of dynamiting open-shop construction sites.