Our Silicon Valley techbros continue to pay so many dividends, if you are a shareholder at least. Otherwise, they see you as a mark for DISRUPTION!!! I was not aware that this included the rental market, but of course it would. Rachel Cohen has a...
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The entire neoliberal transformation of the world has been based upon employers hating their own workers and taking back power from them. Yesterday's labor history post on Carl Icahn and.
This is disturbing, though not really surprising I suppose. For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New.
The ultra rich, of course: A recording obtained by The New Yorker of a private conference call on January 8th, between a policy adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell and the leaders of several prominent conservative groups—including one run by the Koch brothers’ network—reveals the participants’ worry that the proposed election reforms...
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.
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.
I just see no problem here. Nope, no problem at all. Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart...
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..
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 aren't.
The Johnstown Flood happened in 1889 when an elite hunting club led by the vile capitalist Henry Clay Frick and frequented by other lovely people such as Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon didn't bother maintaining a dam on their property. The dam burst and a...
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 the situation.