In a time of eroding journalistic freedoms, a new book chronicles the deliberate effort to use libel law to bankrupt the independent media we have left.
Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United and Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money.
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Change Our Minds, Change the World
Two new books on the false narratives undermining public policy
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Amazon’s Private Government
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control.
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Goodbye to All That Democracy
Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?