Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Read more...DHS barges full speed ahead to impose facial recognition software on travellers passing through US airports, without completing formal rulemaking procedures.
Read more...“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”
Read more...Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing?
Read more...A disucssion of legal issues in the Assange extradition case.
Read more...US federal district judge Brian Morris dealt a serious setback to the Trump administration’s agenda of resuming coal mining on federal lands.
Read more...In this Real News Network interview, Bill Black examines the VW emissions scandal and discusses how corruption has become endemic in corporate Germany, and why the SEC and DoJ are targeting VW.
Read more...The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking follies.
Read more...McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
Read more...Can Sanders supporters counter a hostile media?
Read more...Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
Read more...Even though the Good Friday/Easter weekend is coming up and Brexit matters are thus in low gear, the UK still seems stuck in its pattern of confusing motion with progress. A short list of updates: Labour-Tory talks still going nowhere. I’m not sure it would be progress even if the negotiations were going somewhere, since […]
Read more...Why First Amendment “freedom of the press” protections are far broader than most Americans realize.
Read more...CalPERS resorts to a “garbage in, garbage out” investigation to try to bully board members who have the temerity to ask questions and talk to the press.
Read more...In this Real News network interview, Daniel Ellsberg discusses the significance of the arrest of Julian Assange: “This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher…And if it’s successful it will not be the last.”
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