A generation of college graduates landed in low-wage jobs. Their frustration is reshaping the labor movement—and dividing the working class.
Apple
Posted inMagazine
AI and the Sin of Sloth
Forget AI going haywire. The real problem is that it’s working as intended: making us lazier and less able to connect.
Posted inBooks
The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.”
Posted inFeatured
Trump’s Huge Tariff Exemption Grift
The latest shakedown makes Tammany Hall and the Daley Machine look like the League of Women Voters.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
Spotify, Podcasts, and The War for Your Ears
The streaming giant is building a podcast empire. It’s all part of a high-stakes battle to dominate the once home-spun world of podcasting. Is power being concentrated in too few hands?
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
In Apple Case, It’s Kavanaugh vs. Gorsuch
Donald Trump’s most recent appointee joined the four liberal justices to form a surprising majority in an important antitrust ruling.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Paris is Burning: CNN Deserves Flak for Hiring Pro-Trump Hack
Forrest Gump was right: Stupid is as stupid does. CNN said Wednesday evening that Paris Dennard has been suspended from his commentary role, pending an examination of the allegations against him in a Wednesday Washington Post story. The Post reported that Dennard was fired from a job at Arizona State University “for making sexually explicit […]
