Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food companies are demonstrating their resolve.
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Posted inPolitics
Can Trump Turn TikTok MAGA?
After making the case that TikTok was a national-security threat, Trump did a 180 in the weeks leading up to his re-election. The president has since admitted that he would like to see the platform become “100 percent MAGA.”
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary
Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do the same for Trump’s oil industry backers?
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: How the Supreme Court Legalized Political Corruption
David and Master Plan co-author David Sirota go through the 50-year history of corporations plotting to buy the government.
Posted inLaw and Justice
‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases
The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current backers are being sued over copyright claims.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Montanans Go After ‘Citizens United’
Montanans are putting forth an ingenious ballot measure that, while it wouldn’t legally overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations to buy elections, would negate its consequences nonetheless.
Posted inWorking in America
As Kaiser Workers Strike, ‘Not-for-Profit’ Is Sitting on $67 Billion
Forty-five thousand workers at Kaiser Permanente—ranging from nurses to therapists to pharmacists—are on strike in the country’s largest labor action of 2025.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Socialist Case for Antitrust
The modern antitrust movement, sometimes called the neo-Brandeisians after the former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, had a major influence on the Biden administration. Now that Donald Trump has returned to power, what’s next? Over at the new publication The Argument, Matt Bruenig has a critical review of what he calls the urtext of the modern antitrust […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government began cracking down on hidden transfers of wealth. The purpose was to prevent money laundering that might finance terrorism. Some of this was codified in the USA PATRIOT Act. After the financial collapse of 2008, other safeguards were added. All this strengthened the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement […]
