
Tag: new gilded age

As a public school kid all the way through and now a public university teacher, I am a bit resentful of how all the media attention for higher education focuses on the same elite institutions where al
If there’s one thing the West really needs, it’s the vultures of private equity messing up the water distribution system even more than they already are. But another controversial vision h

This is an excellent but disturbing story about how the gig company consultants are personally targeting labor activists fighting to support AB5, the bill that gives gig workers employment rights. Dub
I want to push back on the idea that millennials are an “unlucky” generation, facing economic strife, pandemics, and other factors that are severely limiting their lifetime earnings. They

This is disgusting but not at all surprising. Moderna’s stock price skyrocketed as much as 30% on Monday after the biotech company announced promising early results for its coronavirus vaccine.
California is a very progressive state. But it’s also kind of disaster, especially with its awful NIMBY politics leading to skyrocketing housing prices and skyrocketing homelessness that makes t

Donald Trump once again has defeated neoliberalism: The National Labor Relations Board announced a new regulation on Tuesday that makes it harder to challenge companies over their labor practices, pot
In the initial Gilded Age, the courts took the 14th Amendment, tore it up as it applied to African-Americans, and created entirely new and unintended meanings for it as it applied to corporations, sta
- Florida Men
- LGM Film Club, Part 361: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- The real weapons of mass destruction are the enemies we made among the way
- Images from American History, Part 44
- LA School Workers Strike
- Rupert’s would-be fall person
- Pumping Gas
- Schultz Out at Starbucks
- More on the Terror Campaign
- Sugar nepo baby: The Bethany Mandel story