Author Archives: Conor Gallagher
Links 10/2/2025
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What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...Links 9/29/2025
War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism
A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive.
Read more...Trump’s Dip Into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – In Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples
Examining one case of how US-sponsored peace deals spread more chaos. Is it simply Trump or a State Department feature, not a bug?
Read more...Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
Read more...Links 9/26/2025
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Links 9/24/2025
U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work?
The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.
Read more...Links 9/22/2025
Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...A Walk Across Alaska’s Arctic Sea Ice Brings to Life the Losses That Appear in Climate Data
A climate scientist gets a firsthand look at the results of the data they’ve been tracking for a decade.
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