We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it.

Ken Paxton’s Texas primary victory puts another Republican Senate seat in play, alongside those of North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, and Alaska.

Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor strike and a hunger strike, refusing to perform the jobs that keep the place running.

One of Republicans’ classic attacks on government goes like this: Scroll through the list of government grants to find the ...

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The seeds of an authoritarian state will still be there unless the United States reckons with its own fascist past and how that relates to Stephen Miller’s vision for the future.

Suing slush fund recipients under the False Claims Act could claw back their payments, plus three times as much in damages.

Today’s example is student loans. The program is thoroughly enshittified, byzantine in its complexity, and a source of punitive debt for the young. According to the Department of Education, less than ...

Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.

For years, both Uber and Lyft have insisted that their drivers are not their employees, but rather, independent contractors ...

There was once a time when our politicians reckoned with moral crises, and the moment appears ripe for a return to it. Murphy describes this not just in economic terms but as a spiritual crisis. I ...

Even as Mark Zuckerberg is now funding a pro-Becerra PAC, Steyer lacks the only two endorsements that could actually help him.