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September 15, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump Doesn’t Need DOGE to Kneecap Independent Agencies
Many independent agencies that protect the public against corporate and government malfeasance remain hobbled by a lack of quorum.
September 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
August 27, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
Methane makes up a small portion of greenhouse gas emissions in terms of quantity, but it is one of the most important drivers of climate change, as it’s over 80 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide in its first 20 years in the atmosphere. A significant amount of the extreme warming that we will experience in our lifetimes, and the planetary tipping points that we breach, will be propelled by methane—and emissions are rising faster than ever.
August 23, 2025 | Common Dreams
Artificial Intelligence Is on a Collision Course With the Green Transition
The choice now is whether the United States continues to aid and abet Silicon Valley’s environmental rampage or to fight it.
August 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
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What Trump Learned From Silicon Valley
Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’
August 19, 2025
The Office of Federal Student Aid Is Under Attack
Students will pay the price for gutting a key agency for disbursing federal aid and overseeing private student loan companies.
August 13, 2025 | Jacobin
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Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.
August 05, 2025 | The Sling
On the Optimal Ratio of Engineers to Lawyers: A Review of Dan Wang’s Breakneck
The book is fascinating and surprisingly fun—with Wang’s piercing dry wit interspersed at a near perfect frequency. It’s also frustrating. While the character of the engineering state is superbly developed, the points where its American “lawyerly” counterpart is brought into the mix are more tenuous.
July 28, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk's Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
July 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Home Insurance Executives Are Raking It In—At Your Expense
Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.
July 14, 2025 | The American Prospect
AFL-CIO Report: Is DOGE’s Antonio Gracias Mishandling Retiree Investments?
Elon Musk’s replacement is busy with mass deportation, while simultaneously running an investment firm managing public union pension funds.
July 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
More AI Means More Cancer
Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.
July 07, 2025 | Common Dreams
The Anti-Labor Undercurrent of 'Abundance'
The accusation from the neoliberal crowd with their new rebrand project is clear: unions are behind policies that result in scarcity.
June 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Is a Former Obama Official Attacking the Left on Climate?
“We’ve lost the culture war on climate,” Harvard law professor and former Obama administration adviser Jody Freeman told Politico last Wednesday. The article amounts to a dry eulogy for efforts to combat climate change, with Freeman’s refrain that the climate movement failed to go mainstream in the background. What goes unmentioned: Freeman’s extracurricular work as oil industry whisperer.
June 02, 2025 | The Sling
Why Big Oil and Big Tech Are Big Fans of Abundance
Trump’s unbridling of AI, crypto, and dirty energy should be understood as one inseparable process. Big Tech has thrown Big Oil & Gas a lifeline by fabricating speculative justifications for fossil fuel expansion.