Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Internet security made insecure

The entire system has become nuts.  Let’s go back to using secret words and codes by email.  And if really necessary, voice verification.  But don’t continue to insist on cods by telephone.  It’s inefficient and ineffective.

America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US tax system

A new report reveals that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.

Trump’s war on the courts, the press, and the states

Trump doesn’t want any resistance. He wants total control.

Yance Ford: The first transgender director nominated for an Oscar

"If my nomination can help in any way to advance the issues of trans-equality and protection for LGBTQ people under the law, then I am as humbled by that as I am by the nomination."
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‘This is my home:’ Meet the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case to...

The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

Medicating isolation

Drug use in the COVID-19 moment.

9 Black labor leaders and advocates reflect on the pandemic and what comes next

We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the Covid recovery—and beyond. Here are their responses.

Progressive or Bust’s provocative meme assaults liberals’ hypocrisy

Rather than demean their civil rights struggle (which, by MLK’s design, enlisted many whites), the meme means to honor it as a needed and noble one.

Why labor is holding its applause for Michigan’s latest ‘workers’ rights’ measures

Even as they passed the measures, lawmakers made it clear that they did so not to enshrine them in law, but to create an opportunity to water them down later.

Women’s March survives and thrives in LA

“There wasn’t just a blue wave, there was a pink wave, and we’re proud of it.”