A roundup of editorials on the left.
1. Unions Did Great Things for the Working Class
From Bloomberg: “Other than massive government redistribution of income and wealth, there’s really no other obvious way to address the country’s rising inequality.”
2. The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Ruling Is Bad for the Country
From the Nation: “The desire to monopolize is crystal clear, but as long as you can spin a theoretical model showing a pretense of consumer benefits, then market power is no hurdle.”
3. Supreme Court takes a giant step backward on voter rights
From CNN: “If we have to jump through so many hoops, and if minorities in particular suffer disproportionate harms -- as they do under Ohio's voter purge practice -- then can we really say that we all truly enjoy the fundamental right to vote?”
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