How student loans became America’s financial catastrophe
From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial trap.
Back to 1984?
Trump's strange global power rankings.
California Assembly introduces law to advance safety of artificial intelligence and public computing power
Artificial intelligence (AI) presents "substantial risks" and experts said California is setting the path to manage those risks.
House vote on defense bill pushes annual military spending past $1 trillion
House advances $893 billion defense policy as culture war riders and audit penalties collide with pay raises, troop increases, and a looming Senate clash.
‘Pushing people into a really bad system will end really badly’
They are norms that we have the power to change.
Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the largest US bank enabled the sexual predator’s crimes
The Times reports JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, including payments to some of the women who were sexually trafficked.
You can’t worship God and money
We must build the strength to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so.
Labor market ‘weaker than expected’, US employers add fewer jobs than predicted
The Bureau overstated the hiring for the year ending in March by an estimated 911,000 jobs, but economists at Goldman Sachs believe the revision would be between 550,000 and 950,00 jobs.
America is ‘exceptional’ now as barbaric pariah, starring MAGA wrecking balls that batter collective...
Just as the world obeys unchangeable physical laws, so there are fixed thresholds in the economic and political world.
Chicago braces as Trump threatens troops and mass ICE raids
Officials vow court action while communities organize, citing billions for militarization and warnings of secrecy and civil rights violations.