The Blindness of Using Venture Capital to Fight Human Trafficking
Venture capital relies on market-based solutions to maximize short-term gains. That is no way to address worker exploitation.
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New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at the Expense of Americans’ Health
Rep. Katie Porter kicks some Big Pharma ass and takes names.
Read more...How New Solar Power Projects Support the Homeless
Solar power plays a key role in a project that gave permanent housing to the homeless in New Mexico.
Read more...Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020
An effort to decompose deaths of despair under Covid.
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The Fatuous Uproar About Robinhood and GameStop
The Robinhood contretemps shows how the US confuses a financial casino for productive activity.
Read more...Vaccination Chaos Fuels Push to Recall Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom needs to pull his vaccination program out of its nosedive. Is he up to the task?
Read more...The Third-World Flavor of America’s Love Affair with the Military
The dangers of undue deference to men in military uniforms.
Read more...TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War
Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?
Read more...Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?
“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.
Read more...Think US Evangelicals Are Dying Out? Well, Define Evangelicalism …
Evangelicals are becoming less church-going, which means their numbers are probably under-estimated.
Read more...Oxford Pledged to Donate Covid Vaccine Rights, Then Sold Them, Thanks to Bill Gates
Oxford planned an anti-capitalist solution for a global health problem. Then Bill Gates got involved.
Read more...COVID-19 Has Exposed the Fragility of Our Food System—Here’s How We Can Localize It
The pandemic has shown the need to localize food production. Farms from Northern California to Canada are creating regional food systems.
Read more...Michael Olenick: From Intel to Apple – Noncompetes are Bad Business
Silicon Valley would never have taken off if noncompetes had been used in its early years, yet titans later restricted hiring across the industry.
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