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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
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
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 14, 2023
How Kanye West Helped to Embolden Anti-Semites on College Campuses
The ADL recently tracked around 30 cases of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism, and banner drops that directly reference Ye, many of which took place at high schools and universities.
Zurie Pope
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March 13, 2023
Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Rich
The very people who eviscerated banking regulations now want to be shielded from the catastrophe they caused.
Jeet Heer
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March 13, 2023
Reports of the Death of Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Program Are Premature
Pronouncing debt cancellation DOA takes the Supreme Court’s ruling as the last word—precisely at the moment when the court’s authority demands challenge, not complacency.
Eleni Schirmer
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March 10, 2023
“Work Until You Die” Is Not a Retirement Plan
For Judith Heumann, and countless people with disabilities, “work until you die” was the only option. It’s past time to change that.
Rebecca Cokley
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March 10, 2023
The Horrifying and Shameful Return of Child Labor
Bipartisan buck-passing and a ramshackle immigration system have revived Victorian degradation.
Jeet Heer