Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance

Why you should be very, very worried when our supposed betters start talking up the newest neoliberal Trojan horse, global governance.

Waste Watch: News from the U.S. and the Maldives

The Maldives and the U.S. are each grappling with managing their packaging waste; beware those who tout the EPR panacea.

Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing

Amazon has much to answer for, like wage theft and brutal workplace condidtion, and is throwing its muscle behind not being held to account.

Why U.S. Labor Laws Need a Major Update—The PRO Act Is a Great Start

Biden is proposing some significant changes to labor law. Does the legislation live up to its billing?

Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible for Many Americans

How Big Food increases prices in categories like bread, beer, processed chicken, and packaged salad, and what to do about it.

Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse

Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.

Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?

Will 2021 be the year that sees many states adopt a right to repair? Farmers may be the first to benefit, with digital consumers next.

Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give Us Back Control of Our Data

Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.

Betsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country

Even though Betty DeVos was depicted as a textbook ogre, her education privatization agenda is advancing as if it were perfectly respectable.

More on the GameStop Short Squeeze: GME Myths Busted

Explaining why some of the nefarious theories about the evil GME short sellers are all wet.

Some Implications of the GameStop Short Squeeze

The seeming success of the GameStop short-slayers could in the long run come at high cost to some of them and most of us.

Elizabeth Warren’s Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Robinhood/GameStop Intervention

Elizabeth Warren is back in swinging hard, but she’s not yet connecting with the balls.

The Fatuous Uproar About Robinhood and GameStop

The Robinhood contretemps shows how the US confuses a financial casino for productive activity.

TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War

Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?