Should Biden step aside? Dems in western KY share their thoughts
Just like Dems all over the country, those in the Purchase are torn. Here’s what they said.
Berry Craig
Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
Arlington, KY
The Supreme Court Hall of Shame
Dred Scott. Plessy. And now, “Trump v The United States.” A decision which will go down in infamy.
My take on the debate
Did you watch the debate? Berry Craig did, and he has some thoughts to share.
British LGBTQ+ ‘Unity’ train is union built and union crewed
A Pride Unity train in the UK? Berry Craig captured it in his trusty Nikon, then got the story to go with it.
Evangelicals, negative partisanship, and Trump
Why do evangelicals, who supposedly are concerned about morals, continue to support Trump in overwhelming numbers?
January 6 and February 6
So here’s Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s warning to the Trump true believers: “You think this is going to be your strongman. But he’s not going to be your strongman. He’s going to be his own strongman.”
My old Sunday School teacher, and 80 years ago
Eighty years ago, thousands of young soldiers stepped onto the beaches of France. Berry Craig remembers one of them.
Are you mad at Biden?
Here’s a memo to progressives who still say they won’t vote for the guy they slam as “Genocide Joe.”
Views on Trump’s verdict, from across the pond and at home
Two different locations, two different opinions.
The Mercedes-Benz UAW vote: ‘A slip and not a fall’
Even though the vote failed, union folks are not discouraged.
Union-busting, ‘Bama Benz-style
The UAW lost the organizing vote at the Mercedes plant in Alabama. Berry Craig digs into the union-busting by Mercedes management, and what’s next.
More than ever, ‘Union Wages Buy More’
Union members really have only one choice for president this fall – and it isn’t Donald Trump.
What kind of May Day could we have in 2025?
On this Workers’ Day, Berry Craig thinks back to another May Day, and muses what kind of “celebration of workers” we might have if Donald Trump is reelected.
The UAW is breaking GOP brains in Dixie
“They’re truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement.”
Teamsters Local 89 wins big at Somerset IMI plant
Even while the UAW was celebrating their big win at VW in Chattanooga, they had another win in Kentucky.
