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Bob Hennelly

Bob Hennelly has written and reported for the Village Voice, Pacifica Radio, WNYC, CBS MoneyWatch and other outlets. His book, “Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?” was published in 2021. Follow him on X/Twitter: @stucknation

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark speaks to the press near ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention centre in Elizabeth, New Jersey May 7, 2025. (Getty Images/Timothy A. Clary)

When Trump’s troops come to town

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Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark confronts ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention centre in Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 7, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

“Almost a Gestapo nation”: When ICE seized the mayor, his city showed up

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Rev. Dr. William Barber (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Pastor busted for praying: Rev. Barber arrested after taking Moral Monday to Capitol Hill

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Haitian immigrants prepare to cross the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2021, from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The forgotten children

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Boeing machinist Andre Johnstone, who says he does not support the new contract offer, pickets outside the Renton Production Facility one day before striking union members will vote on a new contract offer in Renton, Washington on November 3, 2024. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Progressives aren’t the problem in the Democratic coalition

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Donald Trump and Eric Adams (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump heaps praise on NYC’s indicted mayor, who critics say is a “MAGA supporter”

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Mayor Eric Adams exits the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse after making the first appearance in his corruption case on October 2, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

Why Eric Adams still won’t quit: An American story of faith and delusion

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Dockworkers strike outside of the Port of Newark after members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, or ILA, began walking off the job after 12:01 a.m. ET on October 01, 2024 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Dockworkers’ union scores big labor victory after three-day strike

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams stands with his lawyer Alex Spiro (R) who delivered remarks to the press on September 26, 2024 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

NYC in crisis: Indicted mayor Eric Adams plays a Trump-style blame game

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Law enforcement officers from Palm Beach County, Florida stand in the Fiserv Forum as preparations are underway for the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“This has not been a net positive”: Milwaukee’s post-RNC hangover

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A billboard launched by the Democratic National Committee in 10 Milwaukee locations shows former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticizing the city that will host the Republican National Convention in July, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 14, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

An apprehensive flight into Milwaukee for the RNC

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Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking during a campaign rally in Wildwood Beach on May 11, 2024 in Wildwood, New Jersey. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump’s MAGA rallies are getting an inflated boost from the press

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Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally on the beach in Wildwood, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (Bryan Anselm For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Don’t be fooled, MAGA fever hasn’t broken

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In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Behind the Baltimore bridge collapse is a familiar story of a corporation cutting corners

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First Lady of New Jersey Tammy Snyder Murphy speaks at War Memorial Building in Trenton, New Jersey, United States on January 18, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tammy Murphy’s exit from New Jersey Senate race is a win-win

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Rev. Dr. William Barber (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Can America’s “sleeping giant” shake up the election? Let’s hope so

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Starbucks union members pose as they join The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) union members on the picket line as they continue their strike in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 28, 2023. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The year labor took the lead

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First responders survey the scene where a massive part of a seven-story building in the Bronx collapsed earlier this week. (Photo courtesy of Benny Polatseck/NYC Mayoral Photography Office)

New York City is crumbling — but officials don’t “have enough oomph” to build it back up

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John F. Kennedy Jr., salutes as the casket of this father, President John F. Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthew's Cathedral during his funeral services Nov. 25, 1963. (John F. Kennedy Presidental Library and Museum, Boston)

60 years after the assassination of JFK: The guns are winning

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (C) speaks to the media alongside other local and law enforcement officials outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, July 12, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Eric Adams’ blame shifting: Asylum seekers aren’t the source of New York City’s homelessness crisis

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Employees and union representatives with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) local 2, march in a picket line as they strike outside of the Kaiser Permanente Springfield medical offices in Springfield, Virginia on October 4, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

“Trail of death”: Staffing crisis sparks largest health care strike in U.S. history

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Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez depart a Manhattan court after they were arraigned on federal bribery charges in New York, United States on September 27, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Bob Menendez and the gold bars: A short history of New Jersey corruption

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GM workers with the UAW Local 2250 Union strike outside the General Motors Wentzville Assembly Plant on September 15, 2023 in Wentzville, Missouri. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

UAW’s high-stakes gambit: This strike is a “potential paradigm shift”

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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

Labor Day showdown: Deep-pockets N.J. hospital chain vs. strong nurses union

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