Tag: Elon Musk
The monsters of American capitalism
Three of its prime exemplars: Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk!
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Elon Musk plans to profit from Twitter, not create a town...
His acquisition of Twitter, a powerful opinion platform, as a private company also further cements his power.
Elon Musk: visionary or billionaire troll?
Elon Musk is exhibit A in building the case that billionaires should be abolished.
‘Elon, there are rules’: EU says Twitter must comply with new...
"If [Twitter] does not comply with our law there are sanctions—6% of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe."
Elon Musk is hiding the ball again on taxes
Fanboys of the richest person on Earth are spinning bogus tales that swell the Musk fortune and embellish his ‘genius.’
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and you. Which one pays taxes?
Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.
Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape
It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.
Citizen Musk
We’re back to the excesses of the Gilded Age, and Elon Musk is a modern-day robber baron.
Musk, Trump, and the second Gilded Age
Will their audacity and excesses usher in a second progressive era?
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Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches
If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
The perilous path from western domination to de-dollarization
De-dollarization is a road fraught with many challenges.
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
The Biden interview: the President talks about the Supreme Court, threats to democracy and...
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.