What the April 15 Emerson Democratic Primary Poll Says About Emerson and Sanders
It’s 2016 all over again, as the press and analysts go to unusual lengths to ignore Sanders’ gains.
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Hope You Can Make One of Our Meetups This Week! Milwaukee This Wed May 1, Minneapolis Thurs May 2
Reinders and details for this week’s meetups! Hope you can stop by!
Read more...Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System
Even more bad facts about the Boeing 737 Max are coming out.
Read more...How AI Systems Could Threaten Democracy
AI surveillance is more widespread than most people realize…with virtually no checks in place.
Read more...Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century Capitalism
Packed in the Boeing 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.
Read more...Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism
A campus debate over free speech illustrates how the neoliberal world view is accepted by people who think they oppose it.
Read more...Private Equity Investors’ Pockets Picked Even More With Increases in Carry Fees
More evidence that private equity is an exercise in separating fools from their money.
Read more...Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...Promotions and the Peter Principle
The Peter Principle lives!
Read more...Big Round of Applause for Moving Gift from NC Donor!
A donor has come to our aid with a very genrous gift! Please thank him for his help.
Read more...NYC vs Another Fracked Gas Pipeline: Notes From Activists On The Ground
A grass roots report on the fight against fracked gas.
Read more...Department of Justice Indicts Two Drug Company Executives Over Opioid Sales; More to Come?
On Tuesday, the Southern District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a series of indictments against one of the ten largest drug distributors in the US, Rochester Drug Co-Operative, and two former executives, the CEO and the chief compliance officer, and the latter has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. […]
Read more...The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”
Read more...Bostonians: Be Sure to Stop by Our Meetup This Thursday, April 25; Meetups Coming in Milwaukee on Wed May 1 and Minneapolis on Thurs May 2
Please come to our meetup in Boston! You’ll have fun!
Read more...The Great Deformation: Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable
Recent work on iinequality by Lance Taylor says this will be a particularly hard problem to solve.
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