The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALEC’s push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.
Media
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 1: Billionaire Press Domination
Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and don’t see — in the world around us every day.
Posted inPolitics
The Committee Wraps It Up
Charged with investigating the January 6th insurrection, the committee made a devastating case against Trump, regardless of what the attorney general elects to do.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
Posted inWorking in America
What’s Wrong at the Times
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
Posted inPodcasts
Podcast: The Prospect’s David Dayen with Jon Stewart on the Crypto Collapse
A discussion of the blowup at FTX and the role of political and media elites
Posted inEducation in America
The End of College Rankings?
Today on TAP: Maybe the law schools will start an overdue stampede.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
Posted inTAP
Revolution at the UAW
Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.
