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Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: How Gamers Are Organizing for Consumer Rights
Digital gaming has been a frontier in commerce for decades, now it’s the leader in predatory capitalism, and that’s turning gamers into progressive antitrust warriors.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How the Courts Became a Safe Haven for Corporations
A new report details how the judiciary has become more corporate over the past few decades—and names the specific judges who are most responsible.
Posted inTechnology
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
OpenAI’s models aren’t ‘going rogue’ from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
Posted inBooks
Battling an Army of Price-Setters
Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.
Posted inTechnology
What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up
In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Is This Social Media’s Big Tobacco Moment?
Meta is being sued for up to $200 billion over allegedly harming children. That would be a good start.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma?
State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.
Posted inTAP
The Great ‘Made in the USA’ Gambit
Amazon and Walmart are well equipped to detect deceptive claims about where products are made. Their own AI chatbots describe the choice not to act as a business decision.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Meat Industry’s Tireless Effort to Keep Live Pigs in Coffins
The Save Our Bacon Act, which would override hundreds of state food safety laws, has triggered bipartisan revulsion. But the pork industry wants it so they can keep confining pigs.