Meta Helped Write a Delaware Law Protecting Mark Zuckerberg
This week, Delaware passed a bill that would shield tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from litigation. Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, helped write the law.
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Democrats Have Learned Absolutely Nothing From Defeat
Rather than focusing on the actual harms Republicans are inflicting on the American working class, Democrats are using the Signal group chat leak to obsess over violations of norms and protocols. This strategy is doomed to fail.
French Pensions Face Squeeze From Defense Budget Hikes
French premier François Bayrou survived a confidence vote in February after promising fresh talks over pension age rise. But no change has been forthcoming — and calls for increased defense spending are pressuring pensions even further.
Dark Money Is Funding the GOP’s War on Consumer Protections
Thirteen legal groups bankrolled by dark money are urging the Supreme Court to kneecap federal agencies’ ability to take on corporations — a strategy to strip agencies of their power to protect consumers and workers.
Christian Zionism Is on the March
Mike Huckabee began his confirmation hearings to become Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel this week. He has a long history of close association with the Christian Zionist movement and its degradation of Palestinian lives.
“Pink Slime Journalism” Takes Aim at Greenpeace
The Dakota Access Pipeline company just won a landmark suit against Greenpeace worth over $660 million. At the heart of the case is a new and particularly sleazy form of partisan communications masquerading as journalism.
George W. Bush Lives on in Donald Trump’s Migrant Policies
Twenty-four years ago, the “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens. Its echoes are alive and well today in Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants.
With Higher Ed Attacks, Trump Is Following Orbán’s Playbook
Donald Trump’s assaults on higher education funding and campus free speech have precedents in the policies of one of the global right’s icons: authoritarian Hungarian president Viktor Orbán.
This Is America
Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler. But Trump’s reactionary politics are all-American — and the path to defeating him runs through reform of America’s antidemocratic institutions.
The Real Yemen Scandal Has Zero to Do With Jeffrey Goldberg
The press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.
Canada Wants a Realigned Atlanticism
Trump-era volatility is prompting a recalibration of Canada’s foreign policy posture. Despite renewed overtures to Europe, disentangling from US economic dominance isn’t an easy undertaking.
Medicare Would Be in Real Danger of Collapse Under Dr Oz
By hoodwinking seniors into private Medicare Advantage plans, insurers profit by denying care and bankrupting hospitals. Continuing their crusade against Medicare, Dr Oz and the Trump administration plan to make those plans mandatory.
Big Ag Is Blaming High Egg Prices on Cage-Free Laws
Large egg farmers as well as Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary are blaming egg shortages and high prices in part on state-level regulations that prohibit crates and cages for chickens. The Department of Agriculture’s own data contradicts this story.
Is There a Fourth Way for the Democratic Party?
Third Way Democrats are right to obsess over the Democrats’ increasing troubles with working-class voters. But their solution is more of the Clintonian economic centrism that drove away working-class voters in the first place.
Private Airlines Are Making Billions on Deportations
The new GOP spending bill includes a $485 million budget hike for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That likely means a windfall for the shadowy aviation contractors carrying out ICE’s deportation flights.
Trump’s Cuts Are Unmaking American Greatness
Many of the programs Donald Trump and Elon Musk are slashing are great collective achievements of American society. Those programs show our incredible capacity to achieve a better country and world together.
Israel Is Killing Journalists Again
As Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza in full, so too has it resumed its slaughter of journalists.
We Need More Independent, Working-Class Political Candidates
Bernie Sanders says more pro-worker candidates should run for office as independents rather than as Democrats. He’s right.
The School Privatization Movement Is Broadly Unpopular
For years, the loudest opposition to school privatization has come from public-school advocates and teachers’ unions, who argue that vouchers steal tax dollars from local public schools. They are now increasingly being joined by critics on the Right.
Elon Musk Is Hijacking Rural America’s Internet
Rural Americans need good internet and good jobs. And they were poised to get them — until Elon Musk saw an opening to grow his fortune with a plan that will provide worse internet and fewer jobs.