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Bob Woodward's 'The Price of Politics' and Rahm's Behavior, Then and Now

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Reading Bob Woodward’s new book, The Price of Politics, this weekend—while the battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis raged—I was reminded that the White House Rahm who tried to bully and bulldoze Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats into supporting his boss’s agenda was essentially the same City Hall Rahm who—although not sitting at the negotiating table—was the city’s public face of the ugly lead-up to the ongoing teachers strike…

Chicago Teachers Strike Roundup, Pt. 4

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Very little of the negotiations that led to Chicago Teachers Union strike have to do with pay, and teachers on the front lines don’t seem concerned about it. The issues are larger and less concrete, which makes negotiations difficult.

Chicago Teachers Strike Roundup, Pt. 3

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Rahm Emanuel and CTU head Karen Lewis are both addressing the legacies of their predecessors; the physical residue of reform; teacher-on-the-street takes; the national significance for politics and labor; and more

How the Chicago Teachers Strike Could Affect Obama, Democrats

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For a few hours this morning, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post all had something in common on this the 11th anniversary of 9/11: Their top sections featured stories of the poisonous battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Public Schools versus Karen Lewis and the Chicago Teachers Union. The result is a huge stain on Chicago…