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Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?

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The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets?

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The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people last year. In comparison, there were 1,048 shooting fatalities at the hands of police the year before, 1,019 the year before that, 997 the year before that, and so on.

How the Select Committee Wrote a Prosecution Memo for Trump’s Indictment

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The House select committee investigating the January 2021 attack on the Capitol has referred former President Donald Trump and a handful of top aides to the Justice Department’s special counsel for criminal prosecution under four statutes related to impeding the transfer of power to Joe Biden after Trump lost the election.

Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy

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Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.

Why the Climate Justice March in South Korea Could Be a Game-Changer for the Environment

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On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march.

The Economic Realities We Face at the End of 2022

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U.S. capitalism and its empire are widely perceived as waning. Europe’s role as a U.S. ally and indeed its economic future became correspondingly riskier as a result.

Our Health Care System Is Broken—Fixing It Is Not Hard

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Almost everyone agrees that our health care system is in dire need of an overhaul. But rather than seeing it as a problem that needs solving simply and efficiently, the system has become a target for capitalist opportunism.

The Midterm Election Is Over, But Stolen Election Conspiracies Remain

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Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general who denied the results or the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election were widely rejected by battleground state voters in 2022’s general election.