What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?
With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy
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DOGE: Nations Aren’t Corporations and ‘Efficiency’ Means Austerity
Why DOGE, if implemented on the scale intended, will be a train wreck for the great majority of Americans.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Cracks in the Empire – Is the American Superpower Fading?
Michael Hudson provides a new, wide-ranging talk on the US hegemony-preservation efforts and what they mean for Europe, Russia, and BRICS.
Read more...Tech Law in 2025: A Look Ahead at AI, Privacy and Social Media Regulation Under the New Trump Administration
Team Trump’s tech industry regulatory plans have gotten less attention than some other initiatives. An overview helps fill this lapse
Read more...Why Doesn’t the News Media Talk About the Real Issues in Life?
Looking at why the media seems increasingly to be talking to itself and not ordinary people.
Read more...As Biolabs Multiply Globally, Some Experts Worry About Oversight
India’s policymakers have ambitious plans for pathogen research. Can biolab safety infrastructure keep up?
Read more...The Truth About H-1B Visas
More on the H-1B visa scam.
Read more...Why Do We Have a Mental Health Crisis?
Why neoliberalism is a major cause of mental health problems.
Read more...Trump and Political Realignment: Twirling Toward Freedom?
Is Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican party part of a political realignment, or just jousting among plutocrats?
Read more...For Science That Comes With Risks, a Key Question: Who Decides?
From pathogen research to geoengineering and AI, consequential science is accelerating. Whose hands are on the wheel?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Foreward on Schurtz’s Origins of Money
Michael Hudson explains how Heinrich Schurtz’s 1897 Origins of Money debunked neoclassical fables about how money started and developed.
Read more...Wall Street Journal on Men With “Crack Cocaine” Level Addiction to Crypto and Options Betting
The post-2020 bull markets in stocks and crypto + seductive trading apps have produced a big increase in gambling addiction.
Read more...The Destructive Legacy of Failed Aquaculture
Canada plans to shut down open-net-pen salmon farming by 2029. But removing aquaculture infrastructure is challenging and costly.
Read more...A Tale of Two Pandemics
A look at two pandemics, HIV and COVID-19, shows how much public health has suffered due to the advance of neoliberalism.
Read more...Elite College Antitrust Lawsuit Digs into Violation of Exemption via Preferring the Rich
The latest shoes drop in an antitrust suit against five elite schools over money playing a role in admissions, a violation of a legal carveout.
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