Since trucking deregulation began under President Jimmy Carter, trucking rates are no longer set by the federal government, but by companies like SSA Marine, who can avoid paying benefits if their truckers are not classified as employees
An American celebrates the achievement of the Occupy movement in a 'farewell but let's meet again soon' letter sent across the Atlantic to Occupy London.
There are many, many thousands of thoughtful, intelligent people striving to make the US a more decent country by peaceably assembling and petitioning the authorities for the redress of grievances.
The Occupy movement has much to gain from its symbolic eviction. But only if it evolves beyond Zuccotti.
They've lost their space, but not their momentum
The inability of America's leaders to summon a statement for the Ground Zero ceremony that points the way forward for the nation tells us about another kind of defeat, of the US as a collectivity.
I imagine that some amazing eruption of decency stopped the murderers in their tracks, convinced people of wildly different views that they ought to shut up for a moment and
openDemocracy: Todd, what is your view of The Age of Consent?
Todd Gitlin: There are three reasons I like this book. First, I heartily approve its refusal of gesture politics,
The openDemocracy debate continues as Todd Gitlin responds to oD's Anthony Barnett and the Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, reporting on the effects of Fox and his fears that the web won't be able to restore a media the public can trust
The word “crisis” is overused, as are the anodyne “problem” or “issue.” (As in the highly flexible, “I have issues.”) Ordinary troubles become inflated into “crises” because crises sound somehow
With the predictable turn of the decimal wheel, 1968 is back in our faces, up for grabs, forty years on but perennially a live if not limber subject for excavation,
Sometime in 2000, my friend the social philosopher Steven Lukes passed on to me in New York a document heralding a prospective internet venture: an international magazine devoted to debating
