Republicans are forever telling us that they're paid too much. Unless you are saving lives on the operating table or vaccinating children in Africa, it takes a certain kind of chutzpah to berate teachers.

The fact that conservatives are currently pursuing a losing electoral strategy is not enough for progressives to win in the long run. The labor movement must seize the current moment as an opportunity to put forward a winning program.

Republican overreach is in the air. You can see it, smell it, taste it everywhere, as you have in years past. And the only surprise is that is that it happened so quickly this time around.

WASHINGTON -- Gov. Rick Snyder signed controversial legislation on Monday, making Michigan the first state in the country to reduce unemployment insur...

WASHINGTON -- Congress deadlocked several times last year over renewals of federally-funded unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless, twice in...

Saturday's welcome home gathering in Madison, Wisconsin was the 'real' thing! Ostensibly overshadowed by the events in Japan, uncovered by a weak med...

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder now wants to impose "financial martial law" upon struggling communities in the form of "financial managers" that would have the power to abrogate contracts at will and supercede the democratic process.

Instead of screaming about the advances public employees have made to preserve health care, job security and economic justice, angry voters should be asking who has been keeping them from obtaining the same.

When we're asked whether or not we want to cut spending, a plurality of Americans want to slash away. But when we get specific, our preference is to keep spending -- by wide margins. And when I write "wide," I mean chasm-wide. Huge.

Ben Smith pulls Playbook's summary of the recent "staffing up" that the nascent Jon Huntsman presidential campaign is doing. Here's a detail that caug...

Newly elected Republican governors are preparing to wrestle with huge budget gaps in states already struggling with foreclosures and high joblessness....

LANSING, Mich. — In better days, newly elected governors were welcomed into office with star-studded galas, serenades by rock bands, even an NFL...

Most of Washington is working hard at sizing up the new state of the GOP by strutting and fretting over what side in the "Civil War" shall prevail: th...

Glengariff Group for the Detroit News / WDIV 10/25-26/10; 600 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Live telephone interviews Glengariff release Mi...

The Rossman Group / Team Telcom 10/18/10; 400 likely voters, 5.6% margin of error Mode: Automated phone Rossman release Michigan 2010 Governor 50% S...

Rasmussen 10/17/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) Michigan 2010 Governor 54% Snyder (R), 34% Ber...

Baydoun Consulting (D) / Foster McCollum White & Associates (D) 10/7/10; 2,282 likely voters, 2.1% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Baydoun rele...

EPIC-MRA 10/3-7/10; 600 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Live telephone interviews (EPIC-MRA release) Michigan 2010 Governor 49% Snyder (R), ...