Barbara Ehrenreich was a long-time columnist for The Progressive, including contributing to her column "The Flip Side."
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The Guys in the 1% Brought This On | Barbara Ehrenreich
In the ’60s we dreamed of uniting people of all races and collar colors into “one big working class.” But it took the billionaires to make it happen. Read more
Barbara Ehrenreich Salutes the French
Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Read more
Barbara Ehrenreich: President Bush, Meet Lorraine
By Barbara Ehrenreich Here’s the news that rocked my little world this month: We got a message that a family friend, let’s call her Lorraine, who was in an ICU, barely able to breathe on her own. In the last few weeks, there’d been some mumbli... Read more
Barbara Ehrenreich: Corporate Home Wreckers
I was in the Atlanta airport recently, cruising a bookstore, when this catchy title leaped out at me: Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. Read more
Tiny Labor
Tiny LaborFrom the August 2005 Issue In the fifty years of the AFL-CIO’s existence, Big Labor has shrunk to a third of its former size, but it’s been clinging to its outsized clothes and outmoded habits. While membership dwindles, the AFL-... Read more
Flip Side | God Owes Us an Apology
The tsunami of sea water was followed instantly by a tsunami of spittle as the religious sputtered to rationalize God's latest felony. Read more
The Antichrist of North Carolina
When I was in Scandinavia last spring promoting Nickel and Dimed, interviewers kept asking me to tell them about the "debate" my book had provoked in the United States. Read more
If It's Good Enough for Iraq . . .
With Washington fixated on the looming war between the Department of State and the Department of Defense, almost no one has noticed an even stranger development within the Bush Administration--its sudden, and apparently wholehearted, embrac... Read more
A Mystery of Misogyny
A Mystery of Misogyny by Barbara Ehrenreich A feminist can take some dim comfort from the fact that the Taliban's egregious misogyny is finally considered newsworthy. It certainly wasn't high on Washington's agenda in May, for example, when... Read more
Those Who Don't Get By
Those Who Don't Get By by Barbara Ehrenreich The view from the White House, not to mention much of Capitol Hill, is idyllic. Read more
