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Tulsi Gabbard Would Be a Shock to the U.S. Intelligence System

Jeremy Scahill Drop Site
Gabbard should be aggressively questioned about her use of “war on terror” language and calls for a militarized war against an ideology. But Democratic senators are likely to deploy a Cold War line of interrogation on her stances on Russia and Syria.

The Crypto Triad Won the Election

Freddy Brewster The Lever
After gargantuan industry donations, the government is ready to go all-in on cryptocurrency — at the risk of consumers and the greater financial system.

Anti-Union Captive Meetings Are Now Illegal

Bob Funk Jacobin
Captive audience meetings are a key tool for bosses to destroy union drives. With last week’s outlawing of such meetings by the National Labor Relations Board, labor has a window to take advantage before Donald Trump scales back worker rights.

Whosoever

Elizabeth Scanlon Whosoever Whole
Poet Elizabeth Scanlon asks "what is this a culture of," and finds the usual answers wanting, leaving it up to the rest of us to make better choices.

Make America Diseased Again?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
RFK, Jr.'s nomination normalizes and emboldens the anti-vaccine movement. The danger now is that diseases confined to the past become diseases of the future.