Waste Watch: U.S. Lags on Plastics Legislation
Despite leading the world in per capita plastics consumption, the U.S. lags in efforts to do anything about disposing of plastics waste.
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Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
To bring more chips-making back to the US, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks.
Read more...NLRB General Counsel Authors Memo Characterizing ‘Student-Athletes’ as Employees, Clearing Way for Them to Unionize; Employment Law Implications Extend to Others Misclassified as Independent Contractors
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo outlines arguments for treating college athletes as employees, thus allowing them employment law protections.
Read more...Ralph Nader: While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible
Politicians from both parties do the bidding of their corporate overlords rather than act on behalf of voters.
Read more...Harry and Meghan Take a Private Jet – AGAIN! – This Time from a NYC Climate Action Event Back to LA
Harry and Meghan talk a good climate change game, but have hopped on nearly two dozen private jets during the last two years. We’ve noticed.
Read more...Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’
Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, “perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies.”
Read more...Progressives Defy House Leadership on Vote on Biden $1.5 Trillion “Highway” Bill, Hold Line on Deal for $3.5 Trillion Package w/ Social Services and Climate Change Spending
The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
Read more...Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Read more...How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Read more...Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
Read more...The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
Read more...For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.
Read more...Nick Turse: Remembering America’s Civilian War Dead
Time for the US to take a hard look at the magnitude of civilan deaths incurred as a by-product of our Middle East nation-breaking.
Read more...Jackpot Readiness: The (Literal) Pressure Cooker
A potted history of the pressure cooker, and the values immanent within the technology.
Read more...“Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”
Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?
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