Melvin Carter

Wal-Mart is the most notoriously anti-union corporation in the world. After a five-year hiatus, the United Food and Commercial Workers union is once again seeking to organize the company’s 1.4 million U.S. workers. Yesterday they held a rally at the Wal-Mart store in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood.

The story today in Minnesota is the same as the national trend:  victory for progressive Democrats, whether against conservative Republicans or against Democrats seen as too moderate for their constituencies.

On a day when Democrats took over the state senate in Virginia and the Kentucky governor’s office, progressive Democrats won in Duluth and St. Paul as [...]