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Proceeding state by state and trial by trial, White describes, in vivid prose, "the vast scale and comprehensive reach" of this repression by governments and private employers, illustrating "how in wrecking lives it also wrecked the union." A law professor, White focuses on the legal means by which the state - on the federal, state, and local levels - tormented and persecuted its members, while offering an extended brief in defense of what the IWW was struggling to accomplish. BOOKS & the ARTS BOOKS & the ARTS IN BUTTE, MONT., MASKED MEN WOKE up radical labor organizer Frank Little, dragged him from their car, and then hanged his lifeless body from a railroad bridge. What the "story" of the war on the IWW "really does", he writes, "is confirm the Wobblies' own, darker anticipations as to the nature of capitalist rule, which align with the dismal fate of the labor movement and the radical left since the IWW's decline, as well as the prophecies of the Wobblies' most famous champion" Jack London. [Extracted from the article]

The war with Spain liberated Cuba from Spanish imperialism, but it also served to cement US control over Cuba's politics and economy. In this way, the US "stacked the deck - not just against a potential British takeover of Cuba, but also against the possibility of a Cuban takeover of Cuba." BOOK & the ARTS EARLY ON IN HER MASTERFUL BOOK CUBA: AN AMERICAN History, Ada Ferrer alludes to a double meaning embedded in her subtitle: "History in the first sense refers to what happened; in the second, to what is said to have happened." Even as Cuba struggled economically and internal dissent was meticulously stifled, the Cuban Revolution's egalitarian spirit went abroad, as Cuba involved itself in the decolonization struggles in Africa, some of which spanned decades. [Extracted from the article]

I'd often arrive in the middle of a picket, where the raucous chants of Mr. Isaac, a Haitian driver who was once an internationally touring musician, mixed with the drumbeats of Mr. Gyatso, a Tibetan driver from Darjeeling who spoke nine languages. DEADLINE POET ON SEPTEMBER 19, A GROUP OF CAB DRIVERS organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rolled up to the corner of Broadway and Murray Street in downtown Manhattan, parked next to City Hall, and declared they would not leave until the city fixed the crushing debt that had driven many of their fellow drivers to suicide. It was bordered on the south by American flags and union banners, on the north by a memorial for the drivers who had killed themselves, and on the east by parked taxis and tables laden with rice and chan a cooked by Lakhwinder Sehra, nicknamed Didi (Hindi for "big sister"), whose brother was an NYTWA driver. A small woman with a breathy voice and an iron will, Desai has become a legendary figure in the cabbie community - one former driver, Paul Gilman, described her as his "idol.". [Extracted from the article]

But advocates want the city moving in the opposite direction: They want to see nonpolice actors responding to more calls, not fewer, and to eventually get emergency response to mental health calls "out of the hands of the police entirely", Lowenkron said. That was five years ago; since then, more than a dozen New Yorkers, the majority of them Black, have been killed by the police while experiencing mental health crises, including Kawaski Trawick, a 32-year-old with a history of mental illness who was shot and killed by police in his apartment in 2019 less than two minutes into the encounter. At the height of the protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, demonstrators across the country started to make a potent demand: "Defund the police." Advocates got a win in November, when voters rejected a ballot measure that would have required the city to hire at least two police officers per 1,000 residents, which would have added hundreds of millions of dollars to the police budget. [Extracted from the article]

As president, Trump didn't have a problem with the existence of a so-called deep state; his problem was a deep state he didn't control. COLUMNS UPON A WHITE HORSE RIDES DONALD TRUMP, MAN OF destiny, determined to recapture the White House and, from there, to purge the deep state. During his impeachment, Trump didn't argue that cutting off weapons to Ukraine was necessary to stop a NATO grift that was pulling "the world into a conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia.". [Extracted from the article]

IN FEBRUARY 2016, former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell explained why he thought Hillary Clinton would carry the Keystone State, even though Donald Trump seemed to be winning over the blue-collar white voters who, as part of the Obama coalition, had sent a black Democratic candidate to the White House in 2008 and 2012. The good news for the Democrats is that this time, Pennsylvania is home to a vigorous activist movement focused on bringing this Trump-supporting state back into the Democratic fold. In Pennsylvania, Biden has the clear support of the state Democratic Party, winning endorsements even from politicians who had initially supported other candidates. "My biggest fear is, I don't think Biden can beat Trump", Smucker tells me, although he adds that Biden "might be able to [win] in Pennsylvania because of his history here.". [Extracted from the article]

Beyond just clothes, we're talking about upending the male-coded image-making of power, those visual cues politicians use to inform our unconscious biases and the bedrock of most political legitimacy. Throughout the campaign, she mixed up the biker chick vibe with more traditional color-block shifts, suits, and high heels, her glasses pushed up on her head, always at the ready. COLUMNS WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE WAY female politicians dress. [Extracted from the article]

FOR A MOMENT, DIANNE MORALES SEEMED LIKE THE left's best shot at stopping the more moderate frontrunners in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary race, businessman Andrew Yang and ex-cop Eric Adams. But the Morales campaign said that continuing to pay staff with public funds who are no longer doing work for the campaign would risk liability. Farudh Emiel Majid, the senior Queens borough organizer for the campaign, released a statement asking Morales to step down, saying she had created "a hostile work environment towards Black and Brown staffers.". [Extracted from the article]

An interview with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is presented. Topics covered include de Blasio's personal approach and focus on economic inequality, his experience of working as a special assistant to former deputy mayor Bill Lynch, and his views with regards to being a movement leader and the mayor of New York City. Mayor de Blasio also talks about the status of progressive movement in New York, the Whiskey Rebellion, and capital spending.

The article analyzes New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's first 100 days in office, focusing on his role as a key public figure for the U.S. progressive movement. Topics include controversy over de Blasio's policy on charter schools, his universal pre-kindergarten program, and the strength of opposition to progressive politics.

The author offers opinions on politics and government in New York City. The administration of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930s and 1940s is seen as a model for Mayor Bill de Blasio, elected in 2013, for its success in initiating social and economic improvements despite the necessarily limited resources of a municipal government. U.S. President Barack Obama is urged to offer de Blasio as much support as possible.

The editorial looks at the upcoming New York City mayoral election as of September 2013, presenting an endorsement of Democrat Bill de Blasio, the New York City Public Advocate, for mayor. It discusses the tenure of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, saying his policies have severely exacerbated the city's economic and social inequality. It cites other candidates as having some positive ideas, including Bill Thompson, Christine Quinn, and John Liu.

COMMENT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR, ERIC ADAMS will be sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City. Unlike de Blasio, Adams did not campaign on enacting any particular policy or on a large expansion of the social safety net. Adams, like de Blasio, has drawn close to some of the city's most influential developers. [Extracted from the article]

Last year, bail reform - and concerted efforts to stem Covid transmission - caused the city's jail population to drop to a low not seen since World War II. Six months later, in response to lobbying by police and prosecutors, those reforms were rolled back.) There are 5,529 people in the city's jails, as of October 25, the majority at Rikers. In January 2020, New York State briefly enacted bail reform, prohibiting prosecutors from requesting bail or pretrial detention except for violent felonies and select misdemeanors. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the history of political conditions and municipal leadership in New York City as of 2013, with a focus on the election of Republican mayors including Mayor Michael Bloomberg despite the city's majority Democratic and progressive attitudes. Topics include forecasting for the 2013 election for New York City's mayor; reasons why the progressive voters in the city have not elected a progressive mayor; and the demographic aspects of political campaigns in New York City, with information on political trends and the possibility of electing a progressive candidate.

EDITORIAL AS A LONG-SHOT 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, Andrew Yang offered an entertaining diversion from the grimly serious business of defeating Donald Trump. The bad news is that with less than two months until the Democratic primary (which in the absence of a free-spending celebrity billionaire on the Republican line will determine New York's next mayor), progressives have signally failed to coalesce around a single candidate. The genius of ranked choice is that progressive voters can go with the candidate they like best - so long as they leave Yang off their list. [Extracted from the article]

This article focuses on the politics in New York City, New York. New York politics is a vaudeville act, in large part because the city's marvelous, mischievous tabloids play it that way. But behind all that, there's starkly serious business at hand. People thought 1989 was a watershed election, and it was a referendum against twelve increasingly hateful years of Ed Koch, and a chance for the city to rise above its past prejudices to elect a black Mayor. But in crucial ways, this year's election is far more momentous. INSET: Enter the new party, by M.T..

The author reflects on Democratic political candidate Bill de Blasio's reported landslide victory over challenger Joe Lhota in the 2013 New York, New York mayoral election, focusing on de Blasio's progressive political beliefs in regards to economic inequality, labor, and homelessness. A proposal for the establishment of strategic partnerships in high-poverty neighborhoods is mentioned, as well as information about a fair compensation package for the city's teachers.

The article presents a discussion on New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett's have criticized Koch's policies in their book "City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York"; an absorbing chronicle of corruption that meticulously exposes Koch's alibis and diversions. Koch is seeking a third term in a bellwether election with implications for anyone who cares about American cities. Koch interviewers who fail to read this book are as guilty as the Mayor of the authors' final verdict, being someone "who didn't want to know."

For his entire political life Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr. 102nd Mayor of New York City, New York has raised passively, unimaginatively but steadily on the glittering escalator of the Wagner name. He was nominated for the State Assembly in May of 1937. The name got him a series of three appointments in five years. He was elected Mayor in 1953. At the end of his third term, poets and romantics, and not political dissenters insult him and dream of running against him. The reason is Wagner's policies and appointments, which hover just within the glow of enlightenment. It is in the realm of style, intellect and aesthetics that he is most offensive.

The first four-year term of James J. Walker as Mayor of New York ends December 31. He is a candidate for re-nomination. Tammany Hall is the nominating agency and Mayor Walker, despite all his denials, is the man from whom Tammany takes its orders. Unofficially he has been re-nominated, and only the formality of a primary remains. The actual method of the Walker administration can be described in two words, "do nothing." The reference, hereinbefore, to Walker as Lord Mayor of Gotham was not entirely facetious. If New York had an office the duties of which were comparable to the pleasant ones of the Lord Mayor of London, no better man than James J. Walker could be found to fill it. As it is, he Was made his post, primarily an executive one, as nearly like the London job as possible.

The article focuses on the human nature and politics involved in the pending crisis of the health administrations in the New York City. Mayor Mitchell Hylan eliminates certain bureau chiefs to reduce the over head costs of health administration which led him into a veritable political wonderland and inadvertently opened up some remarkable problems in democracy and administration and new problems. All the while health administration was growing away from geography and the bailiwicks of political leaders and the habitat of the people. In other words, the democratic ferment is at work and has permeated administration as well as legislation.

The article discusses businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and his media corporation Bloomberg News. Topics include Bloomberg's legacy as Mayor, such as an increase in inequality, housing costs, unused building repair funds, and median income; and a discussion of the corporate culture of Bloomberg News, such as the outlet's policy of never covering itself and decision to censor its coverage of China to protect its Chinese assets.

The article presents information on the alleged media's portrayal and framing of the mayor of New You City Bill de Blasio as radical, petulant, and incompetent. Topics include former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg; the "New York Times" columnist Maureen Dowd; charter schools; and "Wall Street Journal" columnist Peggy Noonan.

The author reflects on New York, New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio's relationship with his father Warren Wilhelm Sr., focusing on allegations of disloyalty to the U.S. which were levied against Wilhelm Sr., as well as information on de Blasio's decisions to adopt his mother's maiden name and change his full name from Warren Wilhelm Jr. to Bill de Blasio. The author argues that conservative pundits in America have been trying to scare voters by casting de Blasio as un-American.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the August 19/26, 2013 issue including "Carnal Knowlege" by JoAnn Wypijewski about New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, "The Trials of Bradley Manning" by Chase Madar about U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, and "The Monsterization of Trayvon Martin" by Patricia Williams about murdered Black teenager Trayvon Martin.

The article looks at 1930s New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, offering remarks from then-"Nation" columnist Oswald Garrison Villard about La Guardia and noting that 2013 incoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has cited La Guardia as a role model from whom he draws inspiration.

The article discusses Democratic Party nominee Bill de Blasio's push to become the mayor of New York, New York in 2013, focusing on progressive values, de Blasio's role in the founding of the Working Families Party in 1998, and potential tax increases on affluent New Yorkers.

The author looks at the 2013 New York City mayoral election, focusing on the candidacy of Democratic politician and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, whom he notes is a lesbian and former LGBT activist. He outlines policy actions she has taken on the city council which he says are bad for a majority of ordinary people, including LGBT people, on issues including police profiling and paid sick days. He expresses the view that identity politics should not trump a broader view.

The author looks at Democratic politician Bill de Blasio, a candidate in the 2013 New York City mayoral race. The author lauds the de Blasio campaign's focus on addressing the rising economic inequality in the city through liberal policy proposals, contrasting him with both current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who he says is socially liberal but conservative on economic issues.

There is no "Ersatz" for justice," said Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York, recently, in one of those flashes of wit and wisdom, which he often shows. It was a body blow to German dictator Adolf Hitler and all the dictators, for to that sentiment there is no answer possible. It was even more effective than his remark that Hitler ought to be in a chamber of horrors a statement. It is this frank speaking which makes the Mayor so likable and helps to make the author eager for his renomination and reelection.