… This is the only story now …

  In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and  say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter … Continue reading … This is the only story now …

…How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers …

A pro-labour Democrat’s career traces the party’s erratic path “Free trade’s just a dandy concept/Advertisers tell us so/Don’t you question, don’t you doubt it/You’re so stupid. You don’t know.” So goes a song Sherrod Brown composed on his guitar back in 1993, when he was a freshman congressman from Ohio helping lead the fight against … Continue reading …How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers …