The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
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AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
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Objective News Coverage? Not on the Ellisons’ Watch!
With their mega-purchase up for administration approval, they compelled CBS News to honor Trump last week.
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Spirit Socialism: Trump’s vs. Ours
The proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines is Trump’s worst deal yet. But in clean hands, socialized ownership sometimes makes sense.
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Time to Stop Lionizing Powell
The Fed chair has been an enabler of the economy’s hyper-financialization and speculative excess. Resistance to Trump is too low a bar.
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Hegseth, Xi, Stalin
Paranoid purges of generals and admirals are common to dictators and tin-pot wannabes.
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The Working Families Party Goes National
The WFP has unveiled a national platform and is building party organizations in nearly two dozen states.
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Amazon and Trump’s NLRB: So Happy Together!
Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.
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Trump Sabotages His Own Much-Exaggerated Iran Deal
Did the president screw up a possible agreement with his own impulsivity? Or was the imminent deal that he touted on Friday an illusion all along?
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How Trump Undermines Trump
Consider the president’s self-defeating assault against Jerome Powell.