Will EFCA make it through congress? We speak to Irasema Garza, Chris Kromm and others. Also, the story of how workers at the largest pork processing plant in North Carolina won union representation and why EFCA would have made the process a little easier. Finally, textile workers who make US military uniforms on their effort to organize.

No one ever talks about dismantling the Fire Department, Police Department, or Postal Service because they're models of a scary socialist project. Why should healthcare be any different? Quite simply, the health insurance industry stands in the way.

Americans are mad. Mad that bonuses of any kind were paid to workers in failed companies out of government bail-out funds. But if you think it's crazy to reward those who got us into this mess, you'd be mad to get hung up only on AIG.

This week, we bring you news of drugs, sex, and single-payer health insurance, including a fun video clip on Obama’s new drug czar from the Rachel Maddow show. Now that Obama has chosen his top healthcare advisers, the administration is beginning to chart a course for healthcare reform.

Dick Cheney says the U.S. has accomplished "nearly everything" it set out to do in Iraq. Juan Cole differs, just a bit.

The end of civilization as we know it. The worst bill ever. That is how the right has characterized the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Today on GRITtv Chris Kromm, Gene Carroll and others discuss what is driving the real fear behind the right to unionize.

One of the defining characteristics of our economy is the wealth gap. From the Homstead Act of 1862, which allowed people, white men, to claim land to the present, government policy has contributed to the striking disparities in the incomes of white America and the rest of America. In the run up to the Color of Wealth 2009 Policy Summit Jose Garcia of Demos, Ludovic Blain, Program Manager of

In the run up to the Color of Wealth 2009 Policy Summit Jose Garcia of Demos, Ludovic Blain, Program Manager of Insight’s Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, and Dr. Kilolo Kijakazi, Program Officer of the Ford Foundation discuss the racial and historical dimensions of the income gap in the United States.

What if streets were made for people? Once upon a time, before the advent of the automobile cities were places that were somewhat more friendly to pedestrians. Today, whether you're in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles you have often have to do battle with automobiles and buses just to get to work or to the market.

For all the fear mongering about government taking over banks, the scandal we should have been watching was the banks' takeover of our government.