How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
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The Next American Constitution
Trump’s Constitution-trampling has historical predecents. Where might we be headed?
Read more...Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million Plus, New Study Estimates
A new study estimates the cost of payday loans in New York as the state debates tightening rules on these fintechs beyond existing usury laws
Read more...Extreme Heat, Hospital Crowding, and the Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change
A study confirms that extreme heat events stress hospitals so much that they produce non-heat excess deaths.
Read more...The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
Read more...Satyajit Das: DOGE – The Accelerant in American Decline
Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
Read more...Judge Blocks DOGE ‘Fishing Expedition’ in Sensitive Social Security Data Systems
A small win for Social Security beneficiaries in the battle against destruction by DOGE.
Read more...Income, Wealth, and Environmental Inequality in the US
A study based on US air pollution data finds blacks at all income levels suffer worse exposures.
Read more...DOGE Going Dark as Evidence of Fabrications, Destructive Results and Citizen Anger Rises
OGE is turning out to be as reckless and wantonly destructive as its fiercest critics warned.
Read more...Leadership in the Senate: New Boss Same as the Old Boss?
Following the money shows why Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s shadow will last long beyond his tenure.
Read more...The Price of Monopoly and Oligopoly Power: Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality
More evidence of the cost of monopoly and oligopoly power.
Read more...Business Press Suddenly and Widely Reporting Damage Done by Trump Economic Policies
As the wheels start coming off the Trump economy, the president shows no sign of changing course.
Read more...Neoliberalism and a Healthy Population Are Incompatible
It can’t be said often enough that neoliberalism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
Read more...The Perceived Costs of Business Cycles and Inflation
Quelle surprise! People really hate the uncertainty that comes with business cycles. This bodes ill for the Trump regime.
Read more...Trump’s Address to Congress, Lame Democrat Proposals, Highlight the Absence of Opposition
On the total flaccidity of what passes for opposition to Trump.
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