Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
“Religious freedom” has always been partial, aspirational, and constituted by the systems of power that shape the society as a whole.
Nyong’o’s book seeks to “articulate the power of the critical and creative fabulation” of black social life.
Republicans advertise their institutional bigotry, but Democrats obscure their malicious actions with identity politics.
The formative years of the future Commander-in-Thief. “Hail, Comandante Idiota!”
An embarrassed and shamed Institute reinstates award “in keeping with its commitment to learning from its mistakes.”
