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What Version of Democracy Will Prevail?
Speculation about the future of the endangered species known as democracy.
Read more...Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics
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Read more...Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Federal legislation is pending as part of a Big Ag effort to combat states requiring more humane animal farming methods.
Read more...Economic Justice, Desert, and Capitalism (Again)
Ironically, or maybe not, popular ideas and even those of economists about economic justice are at odds with ownership of capital.
Read more...The Illnesses of Basic Biomedical Science, Continued: Scientific Publishing
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Read more...More Trump Jackbootery? Body Camera Video Betrays DHS Account of Chicago Border Patrol Shooting, Attorney Says
More evidence of Trump law enforcement officials using unwarranted violence, here shooting, against protestors.
Read more...What Do Trump Administration’s Threats on “Anti-Capitalism” Terrorism and RICO Mean for Organized Labor?
If the administration continues to expand guest worker programs and makes good on anti-capitalism pre-crime threats, who there by any union workers left for planned general strike on May Day of 2028?
Read more...Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections
“If you can’t maintain your health, how are you going to work to pay back a debt? And if you fundamentally can’t pay the bill, wage garnishment isn’t going to help you do that. It’s going to put you in more financial distress.”
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: The Compact
The Trump administration makes universities an offer they can’t refuse: screen out applicants who demonstrate “hostility to American values”—or else.
Read more...The J K Galbraith Question: The Tyranny of Private Consumption
Can advanced economies free themselves of the pathology that John Kenneth Galbraith warned about, of excessive consumption?
Read more...Israeli Forces Spark Global Outrage by Intercepting Sumud Flotilla Off Gaza Coast [Updated]
Israel has captured some of the courageous passengers and crew of the Gaza relief ship Sumud. They will be tortured.
Read more...What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism
A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive.
Read more...Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
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