Forget steroids. Forget Frank McCourt's mismanagement of the Dodgers. The biggest scandal in baseball at the moment is the Baseball Hall of Fame's failure -- for the fourth time -- to induct Marvin Miller, who freed players from indentured servitude. The 94-year-old Miller, who directed the Major League Baseball Players...

I don't know how it's possible to get more working-class -- or as Americans prefer to describe people who work with their hands, blue collar -- than my father. My father, Robert, didn't finish high school and even a modicum of economic stability eluded him until he became...

By Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
This article originally appeared in The Nation.

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When the Baseball Hall of Fame holds its induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, July 27, three pillars of baseball's corporate establishment will join the ranks. But the man who freed...

By Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele

Just as we are on the precipice of a major political realignment, a possible resurgence of progressive politics in Washington, the backbone of that movement -- organized labor -- is engaged in a self-destructive internal battle. This could not only...

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have recently been arguing whether Martin Luther King Jr. or President Lyndon Johnson was more important for securing civil rights legislation. Their campaigns and the press have turned this tempest into a controversy over race. But it is really a dispute about political strategy and...

Look, up in the sky! While the well-known phrase is from the comic book and movie hero Superman, it could be applied to the world-wide blockbuster Spiderman 3 as well. The movie, which broke box office records in its opening weekend, is set in New York. To the extent that...

In a new biography of escape artist and magician Harry Houdini, (The Secret Life of Harry Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman) the authors have received a good deal of attention by claiming that Houdini, when not hanging from buildings in a straight jacket, was a spy for the...