The AI Bailout Could Be Baked Into the AI Bubble
Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty…
Ferdinand Pecora: The Greatest Senate Investigator Ever
How Sicilian immigrant Ferdinand Pecora upended the rule of the bankers and ushered in FDR’s radical reforms of capitalism
Hubert Harrison, the Greatest Civil Rights Activist You’ve Never Heard Of
A Q&A with Brian Kwoba, author of Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Trump’s Dwindling Power
On Thursday, President Trump said he was prepared to withdraw the nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general rather…
Top Farmworker Fear Is Family Separation
A first-of-its-kind survey by the UFW Foundation quantifies the impact of Trump’s mass deportation campaign on farmworkers, the vast majority…
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along.
Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work
People with serious medical issues will have to jump through undefined bureaucratic hoops to “prove” they cannot work 80 hours…
Hot Centrist Summer Was a Bust
Billionaire donors went hard in July to sell mainstream Dems on their diet MAGA vision for the party. Now they…
The Great ‘Made in the USA’ Fraudyssey
Amazon and Walmart are well equipped to detect deceptive claims about where products are made. Their own AI chatbots describe…
Abdul El-Sayed Lost in 2018. It Set Him Up for 2026.
PONTIAC, MICHIGAN – On a balmy Sunday afternoon outside of the Pontiac Public Library, I was set to join Abdul…