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March 17, 2023
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March 17, 2023
Democrats Face a Terrible Reckoning on Bank Bailouts
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and a phalanx of senators are way too cozy with finance capital.
Jeet Heer
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March 17, 2023
Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie
Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.
Maria Bustillos
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March 17, 2023
A Death in the Valley: What the End of SVB Reveals About VC Class Solidarity
With the banking system sitting on $620 billion in paper (unrealized) losses, this saga may be far from over.
Doug Henwood
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March 17, 2023
The Latest Banking Crisis Is Brought to You by the Federal Reserve
There’s a lot of blame to go around for the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank. But the Fed’s myopic attitude towards inflation bears much of the responsibility.
Sasha Abramsky
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March 17, 2023
To Keep Grad Students From Unionizing, Duke University Wants to Change the Rules
After the Duke Graduate Students Union filed for an election, the university announced that it would challenge the NLRB decision from 2016 that granted graduate workers across the country the right to organize.
Anita Simha
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March 16, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank Didn’t Fund Black Lives Matter
The lies peddled by Fox News are getting more and more blatant.
Joan Walsh
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March 16, 2023
Why Is the Republican Party Suddenly Weakening Child Labor Laws?
Rolling back restrictions on child labor and dismantling public education will make the country far more unequal. For today’s GOP, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
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March 16, 2023
John Nichols on the Failing Banks and Failing Regulations; Plus Gregg Gonsalves on Masks and Covid
On this episode of Start Making Sense, we highlight the senators who warned of the need for greater bank regulation and we review the evidence that masks work to prevent COVID-19 infection.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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March 16, 2023
To Build a Better World, We Have to First Imagine It
V (formerly Eve Esner), author of the Vagina Monologues, discusses bodily autonomy, dismantling the patriarchy, and the pursuit of a better world.
Laura Flanders