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We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. Businesses justify their huge investments in AI by committing ...

Today’s example is student loans. The program is thoroughly enshittified, byzantine in its complexity, and a source of punitive debt for the young. According to the Department of Education, less than ...

Suing slush fund recipients under the False Claims Act could claw back their payments, plus three times as much in damages.

Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.

ICE agents guard the Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against the transfer of detainees, May 26, 2026, in ...

For years, both Uber and Lyft have insisted that their drivers are not their employees, but rather, independent contractors ...

Union steamfitter Dan Osborn nearly pulled off a Senate upset in Nebraska two years ago. Now he’s back, facing billionaire heir and former governor Pete Ricketts in one of the quietly critical races ...

A comprehensive housing bill supported by both parties and the White House inched closer to passage last week. But never doubt the power of the private equity and banking industries and their ...

There was once a time when our politicians reckoned with moral crises, and the moment appears ripe for a return to it. Murphy describes this not just in economic terms but as a spiritual crisis. I ...