Who’s Responsible? How the “Independent Contractor” Dodge Guts Employment Protections
On establishing legal responsibility for employment in the fissured workplace.
Read more...On establishing legal responsibility for employment in the fissured workplace.
Read more...How more IoT = more messed up elections
Read more...European Commission to decide Wednesday whether to adopt a right to repair for smartphones as part of its Circular Economy Action Plan, to match what already exists for household appliances.
Read more...Revillaging as a way to improve communities by improving daily life.
Read more...In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Read more...Influence of Vannevar Bush and the Endless Frontier in Postwar science planning – US science for the next 75 years.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Trump is out to terminate an independent agency that has stepped into the EPA’s void.
Read more...A Plastic Planet seeks to include sachets in UK and EU single-use plastic bans; meanwhile, NY plastic shopping bag ban begins 1 March.
Read more...Brexit is being used to accelerate the neoliberal race to the bottom.
Read more...Justin Mikula continues to document fracking follies; this installment focuses on the challenges stymieing profitability in the top US oil field, the Permian shale.
Read more...The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act would impose extended producer responsibility.
Read more...An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Read more...Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.
Read more...Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?
Read more...A modest civilian advance in the battle over the right to repair – and a brief snippet on how the US military manages creatively to waste resources in the same realm.
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