Court Should Consider Taking Over Dept. of Correction, Warns Manhattan U.S. Attorney
NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Read more...NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Read more...In “Healing,” psychiatrist and former NIMH head Thomas Insel argues for a more nuanced plan to fight mental illness.
Read more...The U.S. is sliding toward a future where abortion is criminalized. This “new normal” disproportionately hits low-income people of color
Read more...A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to rein in Big Tech. But that won’t do much to protect user privacy.
Read more...Amazon is challenging NLRB certification, while a vote at a nearby warehouse looms. So when will Amazon sit down to discuss a contract?
Read more...A worrisome case study of helpless and inaction in New York City tenants.
Read more...UK government ministers want the British Empire benefits to be taught in schools. Don’t let them ignore the death and destruction it inflicted
Read more...What to make of Shanghai’s sudden reversal of its plan to forego a Covid lockdown?
Read more...Workers begin voting Friday at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, culminating an organizing drive by upstarts from their ranks.
Read more...For years, the U.S. and U.K. governments embraced the concept of nudges to change social behavior. Then came Covid-19.
Read more...Yves here. It might seem easy to dismiss the child-warehousing-masquerading-as-education perpetrated by Accel Schools as a charter school outlier. But as this article explains, Accel embodies a new trend to profit-maximization and asset stripping in this arena. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance […]
Read more...More on the debate over whether worker productivity takes a hit at home.
Read more...The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it produced psychological stress and social breakdown.
Read more...Recycling rare metals from waste could help reduce extractive mining. But the value of urban mining depends on how it’s done.
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