Trumping The Times
Fear and servility in midtown Manhattan.
Workers, employers react to ‘Dynamex’ bill amendments
“Employers who mis-classify workers should be punished, but destroying the business model that contractors around the state have built careers on isn’t the way to address that issue.”
Walmartland: How US stores colonizing Mexico are displacing local culture
More and more U.S. transnationals have opened up in Mexico over the past few decades, taking advantage of unfair trade agreements, super-exploitative labor conditions, and cheap utilities.
The limited mind: Why fear is driving humanity to extinction
I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with...
‘Reopen’ protest movement created, boosted by fake grassroots tactics
The people who are doing the demonstrating may really be frustrated and upset, but new research, and journalistic investigation, is revealing that there are powerful forces behind them, egging them on, who want their influence to remain secret.
Study reveals Americans own 40 percent of all guns owned in the world
“The biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States.”
‘Shame on you!’ Protesters interrupt Trump admin promoting coal & fossil fuels at UN...
Protesters at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, as they interrupted a Trump administration event promoting coal and other fossil fuels.
Why economics must get broader before it gets better
Without significant adjustments, mainstream economics will remain two steps behind changing realities on the ground, and economists will be risking a further loss of credibility and influence.
As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes
With the climate crisis now escalating, and the federal government withdrawing, help from local muscle and outside charities is about all the disaster relief that Indian Country can expect for the foreseeable future.
Texas school district threatens suspension for student protests; universities respond, ‘peaceful protests won’t impact...
Individual admissions officials took to Twitter to let students know that joining such demonstrations wouldn't "affect their college acceptance decisions."