Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
How a few platforms control how news travels, shaping what we see, starving journalism, and locking new AI rivals out of data voters need.
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As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.
Read more...“NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs
Spanberger in Virginia and Sherrill in New Jersey are part of the party’s spook network pushing the ratchet wheel ever rightward.
Read more...SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
The biggest anti-hunger program in the U.S. is set to lose over $187 billion between now and 2034.
Read more...This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable neighborhoods.
Read more...Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.
Read more...MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
The ideological currents behind U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s war on Palestine are the same: Yoram Hazony’s neo-nationalism
Read more...Paying for Euroskepticism
A new data analysis shows that Euroskepticism, as in regional voting for nationalist/anti-European Union policies, produces lower growth.
Read more...Tom Ferguson and Nick French: Red Tech’s Political Power, Its War on Labor and the Environment
An in-depth talk between political scientist Tom Ferguson and Jacobin’s Nick French about recent big shifts, above all the rise of red tech.
Read more...‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
Read more...Why Trump’s 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined
The Trump/Pulte 50 year mortgage scheme is indeed really bad even before getting to the fact that it would probably increase home prices.
Read more...“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
A sadly necessary reminder of what US regime change operations are about. Hint: nothing good.
Read more...Shutdown Has Highlighted Washington’s Retreat From Big Ideas on Health Care
Health care in the US has become too big to fix.
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