Rather than cracking down on employers exploiting immigrant labor, we’re getting an assault on unions and rendition of immigrant activist students. And an increase in H1 and H2s to further drive down wages and worker protections is likely coming.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Reform Backers Are Importing the US’s ‘Big Money’ Playbook to UK Politics
Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk.
Before Banks: Historical Lessons for Rethinking Credit
The era before modern banking took off featured flexible, highly personal credit arrangements, in some ways better than what we have now.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: M (1931) Run Time 1h29m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents M (1931) A classic b&w crime drama set in 1930’s Germany, it was director Fritz Lang’s magnum opus.
Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical
Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.
Trump and Rubio Signal US on Verge of Halting Ukraine Peace Negotiations
As we had predicted from early on, the Ukraine peact talks are failing. Trump is threatening to pull the plug.
Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?
Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border
Your Face, Your Passport: The Hi-Tech, Dystopian Future of International Travel
“E-gates… open the possibility of harvesting the travel data and biometrics of the population across our lifetimes.”
Trump Makes Presumed Empty but Loud Threat to Fire Fed Chair Powell, Showing that Trump Will Continue to Wreck Markets and the Economy to Prove His Manhood
Trump is now taking on Fed chair Powell over Powell’s refusal to cut rates to bail Trump out of the economic messes he created.
Tariffs, the Dollar, and Equities: High-Frequency Evidence from the Liberation Day Announcement
Sales of US equities by foreign owners played a meaningful role in the falll of the dollar after the Trump tariff rampage began.
Trump Back on Track to Failed Iran Negotiations and Likely War
After only one US exchange with Iran, new noises from Witkoff and others show the US upping its demands to a level not acceptable to Iran
