Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya have been illegally terminated. It’s a bid to centralize executive power.
corporate power
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Private Equity Vultures Descend on Care Facilities for the Disabled
A new report chronicles ten years of consolidation.
Posted inWorking in America
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Unusual Biden-Trump Continuity in One Area
On antitrust, Trump’s enforcers are challenging mergers and seeking breakups. What’s going on here?
Posted inPolitics
Don’t Expect Corporations to Save Us From Trump
Restoration of democracy will require containing both Trumpism and corporate excess, which feed on each other.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The New Antitrust Consensus
The Trump administration is maintaining the merger guidelines that Lina Khan co-authored, and big business is angry.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe.
Fans have been pushing pop stars to take courageous political stands, but Chappell Roan’s skirmish with an obnoxious exec shows how hard it is for them to stand up even for themselves.
Posted inPolitics
Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats
America needs a true opposition party.
Posted inPolitics
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
Posted inWorking in America
The ‘Pro-Worker’ Portable Benefits Scam
Big Tech app companies want to evade employment law, and they’re hoping Republicans will help.
