The South African-born mogul is now trying to gut the 89-year-old National Labor Relations Board.
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Posted inEconomy
Steel Can Lead the Green Revolution
A former mayor of Pittsburgh and a grandson of steelworkers makes the case for environmentally sustainable steel production.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2024
How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
Posted inPolitics
If You’re Going to Send the President a Protest Letter, Sign Your Name
Posting a protest letter on social media platforms with anonymous signatories is not just cowardly but the emptiest of empty gestures.
Posted inPolitics
Why Does Ukraine Aid Drive the Trump Right Nuts?
The American right used to focus its anger on the USSR but now it seeks enemies at home and part of that is opposing aid to our democratic ally, Ukraine.
Posted inPolitics
Biden vs. Trump Is the Race Voters Want. Really.
Biden and Trump really are the candidates we’ve wanted all along.
Posted inHealth Care
VA’s Private Health Plan Faces Huge Cost Overruns
The Veterans Community Care Program promised to give vets speedier access to high0quality care. Instead, its care is of lower quality, takes longer and its cost is soaring.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Israel and the Politics of Paroxysm
“For some time now,” wrote the author in 2015, “it has been Israeli leaders who’ve never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Posted inPolitics
Keep Your Wits About You in 2024
How not to get spooked by the panic of the media herd.
Posted inPolitics
The Paranoid Style of Naomi Klein
The Doppleganger author has smart, cutting insights into the conspiratorial delusions of Naomi Wolf and today’s MAGA right. It’s too bad she can’t face her own.
