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The ‘Pro-Worker’ Portable Benefits Scam

Big Tech app companies want to evade employment law, and they’re hoping Republicans will help.

Voters canned a ballot measure that would have created a nonpartisan redistricting commission, but more changes are on the horizon.

Young activists persevere in their efforts to stave off climate change and protect their environmental heritage.

The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.

On our live show, David and Luke discuss the changing of the guard in the Democratic leadership.

The legislature could spend early 2025 debating how to upend the constitutional amendment on reproductive rights that voters just passed.

by David Dayen December 3, 2024

The first Democratic trifecta in 40 years is ending with internal dissent, stalled legislation, and up to $10 billion in corporate subsidies.

Seven states passed constitutional amendments protecting abortion this year, but the backlash from anti-abortion forces has only just begun.

Kentucky voters soundly rejected sending taxpayer dollars to private schools, showing yet again that Kentuckians stand with public educators.

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.