Health professionals, patients, and lawmakers savaged private-equity baron Joel Freedman for the proposed closure of Hahnemann University Hospital at a noontime rally in Center City, Philadelphia, today. What looked to be over a thousand supporters and activists turned out, shutting down part of Broad Street and condemning Freedman as a “coward” and a “disgrace” who […]
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
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Posted inWorking in America
The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
With 2.5 million third-party sellers, it’s the largest employment-related class barred from using courts for complaints, and confined to the online retailer’s private law.
Posted inTAP
Another Stop Sign for Self-Driving Cars
Elon Musk is unhappy: Somehow his grand vision of allowing every Tesla owner to sleep in the back of the car while they’re whisked around to work and play hasn’t come to fruition. According to an article at The Information, Musk has fired several top managers working on Tesla’s “Autopilot” feature, including the group’s leader, […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Conservatives Grasp at Straws After CBO Minimum Wage Analysis Shows Clear Benefits
Increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour would be very good news for American workers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Try SurveillApp!
These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And […]
Posted inTAP
The House Border Supplemental Debacle
While we’ve spent the past two days watching candidates who want to win the next election, we’ve neglected a disaster from the winners of the last election. For the past week, the House has been working on a $4.5 billion emergency border supplemental appropriation, responding to the inhumane conditions in migrant holding cells. Progressives wanted […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Warren’s Medicare for All Moment Was Critical
The 2020 candidate had been more equivocal on single-payer in the past. Not at the first debate.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Over 100 Academics Endorse Sanders’s Student Debt Cancellation Plan
The economists and professors say that debt relief can improve and stabilize the U.S. economy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Facebook Wants to Become the World’s Banker—and Congress Isn’t Paying Enough Attention
Despite the company’s plan to issue its own currency, lawmakers haven’t grasped the threat this poses to the world’s economy.
