• Economy • Global

    Media coverage of Trump’s tariffs has grown more skeptical – but not nearly skeptical enough

    Dan Froomkin

    Press Watch

    The tariffs are not the product of serious policymaking. They are the irrational and capricious result of Trump’s delusional thinking.

    Published On: 08/01/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

    Adam Harris

    The Guardian

    Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

    Published On: 07/05/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    What Zohran Can Teach Democrats

    Anand Giridharadas

    The.Ink

    This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

    Published On: 06/25/2025

  • Economy • Featured • Recommended

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Working folks build food solutions, while Congress slashes SNAP

    Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

    The Gander

    Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Economy • Global • Technology

    Why Climate Action is Unstoppable

    Al Gore

    Ted Talks

    In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Economy

    Trump’s Huge Tariff Hoax

    Robert Reich

    https://robertreich.substack.com

    A big lie is at the heart of Trump’s tariffs

    Published On: 05/13/2025

  • Economy

    Trump’s Recession Has Begun

    Timothy Noah

    The New Republic

    It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

    Published On: 05/03/2025

  • Economy • Featured

    Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

    Science News Staff

    Science

    Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Economy • Global

    So Much That’s Wrong, All In One Story

    Jay Kuo

    The Status Kou

    A move by Amazon to show the cost of tariffs to its customers gets smacked down by the White House.

    Published On: 04/30/2025

  • Economy

    Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

    Timothy W. Ryback

    The Atlantic

    By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Economy • Technology

    The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game

    J. Dylan Sandifer

    The New Republic

    Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?

    Published On: 03/21/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

    JULES EVANS

    Ecstatic Integration

    An emerging alliance between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Economy • Technology

    The Wide Angle: Elon Musk and the American Endgame

    Dave Troy

    The Washington Spectator

    ...Congress is baffled as to why Musk is doing all of this, and what he possibly wants from access to sensitive data including US Treasury records on social security numbers, bank routing and account numbers, healthcare data, and Department of Energy information on nuclear weapons. He has given free rein to a group of 20-ish boys — tech enthusiasts with no training or relevant experience — so they can “improve” things and harvest information.

    Published On: 02/12/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse

    Dave Troy

    The Washington Spectator

    In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.

    Published On: 07/30/2024

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