At the urging of the Bergson Group’s Emergency Committee, and in response to considerable pressure from Congress , FDR seized the initiative and created the War Refugee Board on January 22, 1944.  Its main task was to assist in the immediate rescue of European Jewry, and it was given..…

.… But nowhere was the growing salience of class consciousness more apparent than among black elites in the main African American political organizations—National Urban League (NUL), NAACP, and National Negro Congress (NNC)—who came to believe that only through a class-based alliance..…

With Obama in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in Congress, it appeared that unions would finally be able to get action on their main legislative agenda—passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a measure that would make it easier for workers to join a union. ..…

Congress “is a haven for narcissistic hacks.” The Bush Doctrine of preventive war is “poppycock” whose namesake’s “main achievement has been to articulate that ideology with such fervor and clarity as to unmask as never before its defects and utter perversity.” . ..…