Monday, April 7, 2025

Why workers are turning to unions

Besides fighting for better wages and working conditions, unions confront favoritism and discrimination when no one else will.

Big Banks break their climate promises by propping up Big Meat

Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.

Donnie’s Little Lies are Huuuuuge

What a maverick! What a shake-'em-up outsider! What an anti-establishment fighter for working stiffs! Oh, and don't forget this: What a phony!

“Don’t Run Joe” campaign will oppose renomination of Biden

“A president is not his party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination. Joe Biden should not seek it. If he does, he will have a fight on his hands.”

Why disability rights advocates are pressing the Senate to allow an internet voting option

The push for voters with disabilities, and for overseas and military voters, pits civil rights activists against cybersecurity advocates.

Why Rand Paul Was Right to Kill the So-Called Patriot Act: It Was Never...

While Sen. Rand Paul helped force the expiration of the so-called PATRIOT Act, it seems he is a better constitutional scholar than Barack Obama, who is not interested in the Fourth Amendment.

Hiroshima at 75: Health lessons still current

The devastating threats that atomic power poses to health still are a huge threat to humanity.

Cameron Is Cornered

The Panama Papers exposed how the British prime minister benefited from his father’s stealth wealth.

Big Mac’s new Big Data “innovation”

Far from helping customers, McDonald’s snazzy, new AI ordering system will be helping the corporation by silently compiling personal information on you.
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The Fed’s inflation mistake continues

Most of the pain is borne by people who are already struggling to keep up with rising prices: lower-wage workers and the poor.