For Labor Day, a call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers’ advocates.
Big Tech
Posted inEconomic Policy
Musk, Trump, and the Second Gilded Age
Unlike Trump, the Tesla Motors CEO seems to genuinely care about the future of humanity. But, like Trump, Musk loves to upend the status quo by breaking norms and maybe even some laws.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Require Tech Companies to Carry Alex Jones’s Destructive Lies
The First Amendment’s protections do not mean that people have the right to be free of the consequences of what they say, or that companies have an obligation to provide them a platform.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Can the EPA Roll Back California’s Clean Air Standards?
The feds can regulate mileage, but the states can regulate smog.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What Else Could We Do with $1.9 Trillion?
If we spent that money on infrastructure rather than tax cuts for the rich, we would get better economic performance and more good jobs.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Was Albert Einstein a Racist?
The great scientist was a radical egalitarian—but subject nonetheless to some of the biases of his time.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
‘We Can Change the World. Let Me Show You How.’
A tale of technological utopianism versus movement politics
Posted inAmerica and the World
The EU Leads the Way to Internet Privacy Over Profit
We should be rooting for the success of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Speaker Ryan Dives In to Save NAFTA
At stake: job outsourcing benefits for corporate America
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
To Bring Drug Prices Down, Trump Proposes — Nothing, Really
Eschewing policies to lower costs here, the president tells drug companies to raise their prices abroad. (We’re not making this up.)
