The NCAA’s feeble attack on a California bill allowing that is full of sound and fury, but little substance.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meet the Oligarchs Funding Campaign to Kill Anti-Poverty Programs
Top funders behind a campaign against food stamps and Medicaid include some well-known rightwing political megadonors.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Democracy Died in North Carolina
Republicans sneaking through a budget bill while Democrats attended a 9/11 ceremony exemplifies how the Tar Heel State’s political institutions have been decimated by right-wing rule.
Posted inBooks
Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.
Posted inWorking in America
Kaiser Hospital Workers Mobilize for Largest Strike in Two Decades
A coalition of unions representing more than 80,000 workers has authorized a walkout that would begin in October—and used Labor Day to pressure management.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Cost-Benefit Boomerang
The right devised cost-benefit analysis to discredit regulation. Now this technique is showing massive net benefits, and the foes of environmental regulation are in a panic.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Why We Must Legalize Marijuana
The federal prohibition of marijuana has been unnecessarily cruel—wasting billions of dollars, unjustly harming millions of lives, and furthering racist policies.