| With about 11 million Americans no longer receiving supplemental unemployment benefits as of last week, many businesses have suggested job openings will see a big uptick in applications. The evidence suggests more modest growth, writes contributing columnist Kate Cohen, but it makes sense that extra money has allowed Americans to turn down jobs they might otherwise feel forced to accept. "To me, that's a good thing," she writes. "And the tight labor market has given some workers the courage to insist that they be treated with respect in the jobs they do take." Indeed, Cohen observes, workers are standing up for themselves up and down the income ladder. "Something fundamental is shifting in Americans' relationship to work, and it goes beyond the Hiring Crisis and the Great Resignation," she says. "Americans seem to be reconsidering an essential question: not just how much work should pay, but how much it should cost. How much should work cost your home life, your health, your family? How much should it cost your dignity?" The pre-pandemic answers, she concludes, no longer apply.  (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) Our relations with our employers might be the biggest change to come out of the pandemic. By Kate Cohen ● Read more » | | | Reality shows can be helpful. It's hard to see how this one will be. By Michele L. Norris ● Read more » | | | Embracing Muslims? Welcoming immigrants? This is the antithesis of Donald Trump's party. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | | If Republicans won't get on board with this pro-growth policy, the least they can do is get out of the way. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » | | | | It's not a revolution, it's a recalibration. By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | In Tillamook, Ore., the pandemic rages out of control. But the response from state and federal governments poses unintended dangers for rural communities like ours. By David Yamamoto ● Read more » | | | | When a judicial philosophy and a party's agenda map onto each other so neatly, this is a hard claim to swallow. By Eugene Robinson ● Read more » | | | Conservatism's decline is in evidence almost everywhere. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | Kenneth W. Starr spent months, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, investigating a few seamy sexual encounters. By Helaine Olen ● Read more » | | | |
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