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Corporations

States are following the Biden administration’s lead in going after unfair and deceptive fees

April 18, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

If corporations have power, it’s a safe bet they’re using it to extract junk fees. ...

Democracy

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

April 12, 2023 • by Benjamin P. Davis

Business schools obviously train students to see the world in terms of commodities. But what about the rest of the university? ...

Democracy

The phrase “liberal democracy” has degenerated into an ideological cliché

April 12, 2023 • by John Keane

Democracy is not an all-knowing and arrogant Ideology. It is its antidote. ...

Corporations

Inside the Fight to Save Local Journalism

State and federal lawmakers are aiming at Big Tech’s ability to destroy local news

April 11, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

The decline in local news coverage is bad for communities for a whole host of reasons. ...

Inside the Fight to Save Local Journalism

Democracy

How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

“The troubling truth is that democracy can be destroyed in multiple ways, in different tempos”

April 10, 2023 • by John Keane

Things are serious: the “great democratic revolution“ of modern times, as Tocqueville once called it, appears to be spluttering to a halt....

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Why do rats matter?

April 5, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Rats continue to bear witness, and the close quarters of our shared history, as well as our many assassination attempts (on their bodies and on their characters), have surely sharpened rats’ noses to the whiff of human hypocrisy....

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

How to Kill 100 Rats

A manager tackles rats with a sense of personal accountability in one very infested coffee shop

April 3, 2023 • by Curran Boyd

Handling a decaying rat can be detrimental to coffee quality control for the rest of your shift. ...

Democracy

The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End

On Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy and the function of political theater

March 28, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, James Miller and Jessica Pisano

Zelenskyy’s approach to political leadership has been focused on creating conditions that allow people to self-mobilize and self-govern....

<strong>The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End</strong>

Politics

All Trump’s Men

A potential Trump indictment in New York created many problems for the Republican Party leaders

March 21, 2023 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Trump's demands for his supporters to rally around him again have produced anemic results......

Europe & Central Asia

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

March 20, 2023 • by Maria Stepanova

The war, begun by Russia, had deprived life of all its connective tissue: nothing happening outside Ukraine held any meaning or had any weight....

Corporations

Camden Got Answers—And They Revealed A Lot

So much money for big corporations, not many jobs for local residents

March 9, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

disclosure can be a powerful tool for uncovering exactly how flawed particular subsidy deals really are. We never would have known how few local residents these heavily subsidized corporations were hiring without a committed group of activists using the available legal tools to implement a new disclosure regime....