Harold Meyerson

The incoming president’s transition team is making the case for reviving some long-buried monsters.

With their more than half a trillion dollars, Bezos and Musk join forces to make sure Trump doesn’t support even a scintilla of worker power.

If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time.

Even though many economic metrics show Joe Biden's term as president to have been a success (and a historic success by the metric of enhancing workers' rights), by political metrics it has to be judged to be a flop. It's becoming clearer that much of the reasons for that flop resulted from Biden's age-related infirmities , which made him a very uncertain trumpet for his own policies.

Editor at Large Harold Meyerson on the year in politics and policy

Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.

Today on TAP: National security requires worker security—and some worker power—too.

SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.

Today on TAP: Now that Gaza has been leveled, the war on the rubble and those trapped in it may cease.

He warned about the threats to American democracy. As did Eisenhower. As did Washington. And all three warned us about Elon Musk.