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Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier is professor of politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His most recent book is “The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame” (Nation Books).

Members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American Labor Union, proudly display their banner at a 1955 ceremony celebrating the organization's 30th anniversary. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history

Peter Dreier
A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history

Peter Dreier
Vanessa Williams (left) proposes to her girlfriend Megan Coombs in front of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on the Opening Day of baseball season on April 01, 2021 in New York City. The couple are both longtime Yankee fans. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?

Peter Dreier
(AP/Richard Drew)

Trump’s bizarre obsession with his questionable intelligence

Peter Dreier
Barack Obama; Bernie Sanders (Getty/Leigh Vogel/AP/Jae C. Hong)

Progressives: Don’t blow the chance for health care reform with a single-payer litmus test

Peter Dreier, Donald Cohen
Hindenburg Park sign at Crescenta Valley Park in La Crescenta, Los Angeles CountyIt is two days before a public hearing scheduled on April 7, 2016 regarding the sign, which was sparked controvesy after it was erected last month because the location was the site of Nazi rallies and a Nazi youth camp during the 1930s. / AFP / FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

A California suburb reckons with its Nazi past — and present-day controversy follows

Peter Dreier
Karl Rove; Donald Trump; Kris Kobach (AP/Rick Bowmer/Evan Vucci/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump’s war on voters has a long history: We need a grassroots voting-rights movement to fight back

John Atlas, Peter Dreier
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump, a classic case of affirmative action for the wealthy, wants to take it away from the disadvantaged

Peter Dreier
Democratic candidate for Georgia's 6th congressional district Jon Ossoff (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Why did Democrats Ossoff and Parnell lose their congressional races in Georgia and South Carolina?

Peter Dreier
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP)

The fascinating story of Major League Baseball’s players union stimulated by the death of Jim Bunning

Peter Dreier
Rod Dreher Family Photo (Penguin Random House/Beth Boughton)

Conservative author Rod Dreher’s paradox: Compassion in St. Francisville and cruelty in America

Peter Dreier
Donald Trump, Richard Nixon (AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Photo montage by Salon)

Nixon redux? Trump’s “Tuesday afternoon massacre” could lead to his impeachment or resignation

Peter Dreier
Greensboro Four monument (Cewatkin)

How history is made: Over 50 years ago, four young black men decided to order coffee in Greensboro

Peter Dreier
Donald Trump (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

“I’m, like, a smart person”: Forget inauguration size and business success — Trump’s biggest lie concerns intelligence

Peter Dreier
Margaret Sanger (Salon/Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

From Margaret Sanger to Mike Pence: A century of progress — and backsliding — for Planned Parenthood and the right to choose

Peter Dreier
Rabbi Marvin Hier; Donald Trump (Getty/Tom Pennington/Eric Charbonneau)

Donald Trump’s rabbi: Why is the founder of the Museum of Tolerance praying at the inauguration of a president who spews hate?

Peter Dreier
Donald Trump (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Darkest before the dawn: How to prepare for President Trump

Peter Dreier
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Donald Trump’s questionable intelligence: All those false claims about his academic record and derision of others bespeak profound insecurity

Peter Dreier
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Boynton Beach, Fla., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (AP)

While Donald Trump’s bigotry is overt in some instances, his anti-Semitism is subtle

Peter Dreier
David Brooks (PBS)

Sorry, David Brooks, but we can’t blame Trump’s ascendance on “anti-politics” — it’s class politics

Peter Dreier
(Paramount Pictures)

“The Big Short’s” shortcomings: The real culprits in the financial meltdown never paid for their crimes, but still, it’s not all gloom and doom

Peter Dreier
Rosa Parks (AP/Paul Warner)

The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know

Peter Dreier
(Reuters/Rick Wilking)

Make the wingnuts answer these: The eight questions debate moderators must ask the Republicans next

Peter Dreier
Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., speaks during the taping of "Iowa Press," Saturday June 28, 1997, at the Iowa Public Television studios in Johnston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Associated Press)

This was Bernie before Bernie: Remembering the heroic late senator Paul Wellstone, 13 years after the plane crash

Peter Dreier
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