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Rebuilding Opportunity
Since President Trump first proposed a “trillion-dollar infrastructure plan” on the campaign trail, it has featured prominently on Congress and the White House’s to-do list. After the failure of the repeal-and-replace bill for the Affordable Care Act, its importance has only increased. There has been a great deal of discussion as to how much of…
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Regulating the Race to the Bottom
On November 24, 2012, a fire broke out in the Tazreen Fashions factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Managers ordered workers to stay in their seats, thinking the alarm was a drill. 123 workers died as the fire spread throughout the building. Workers trapped inside were incinerated; others jumped to their deaths out of upper-story windows. Five…
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Ferguson and the Fight for 15
The McDonald’s on West Florrisant Avenue in Ferguson became a notorious corner of a notorious city for a violent altercation between journalists and over-militarized police during the protests of mid-August. But the Ferguson McDonald’s has also come to symbolize something deeper than just confrontations between cops and civilians: the emergence of a new labor-civil rights…
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Striking: Padding a Salary or Righting a Wrong?
When the Chicago teachers’ strike came to a close, 25,000 teachers returned to teach 350,000 students after eight days off of school. The ramifications of the strike went beyond simply a reduced number of instructional days for students. Working parents had to scramble to arrange a place for their children to go during school hours.…
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Indecisive British Election Results
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Conservative challenger David Cameron each made their case Friday for a coalition with the party that finished third in Britain’s elections, hoping to secure the balance of power following an inconclusive vote. The Conservatives, who won the largest number of seats in Thursday’s contest, suggested that lawmakers from the…
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Why Walmart is Ruining America
Editor’s Note: The following is a response to a piece by Alex Hoogland that appeared in November’s edition of the Washington University Political Review. That article may be read in its entirety here. Alex Hoogland contends that Walmart is good for America. He points out that Walmart employs millions of people and delivers inexpensive goods…
