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Congress Could Finally Ban Its Members From Trading Stocks—and Not a Moment Too Soon
Ending a thousand conflicts of interest can begin with a single step.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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January 19, 2022
What’s Really Behind the Microsoft-Activision Deal
It isn’t the end of the console wars but the start of the metaverse wars.
Elie Mystal
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January 19, 2022
Why I Divested My Bank Account and You Should Too
I couldn’t accept doing business with one of the world’s greatest financiers of fossil fuels.
Ilana Cohen
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January 14, 2022
Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits
A survey of 10,000 grocery-store employees lays out the job’s human cost.
Kim Kelly
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January 6, 2022
Welcoming Our Robot Overlords
Corporations like Amazon have lives of their own—and they control ours.
Olúfémi O. Táíwò
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January 5, 2022
When Big Brother Is Your Boss: The Rise of Surveillance Wages
Everything the Internet knows about you may end up being used against you by your employer.
Zephyr Teachout
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December 30, 2021
Revenge of the Nerds
Has neoliberalism placed political power in the hands of consultants with calculators?
Olúfémi O. Táíwò
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December 23, 2021
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet
The US economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming. Which are we going to choose?
Frida Berrigan
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December 22, 2021
The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care
What might have happened if taxpayers—rather than investors—had directly funded Theranos’s blood-prick research?
James Ledbetter
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December 20, 2021
NBA and NFL to America: Drop Dead
The major sports leagues have decided that the show must go on, body count be damned.
Dave Zirin