Frenzied Financialization
Washington Monthly
Shrinking the financial sector will make us all richer.
Corporate America's Oily Trick: How Big Business Uses "Yellow-Dog Contracts" to Crush Basic Rights
Salon
Your job contract or cellphone agreement could have secret language that ruins your life. Here's how it works
Bruce Rauner Keeps it in the Daley Family
Chicago Reader
I think this is a good time for all of us—Tribune included—to stop pretending that Rauner was the nobody from nowhere as depicted in his campaign commercials as opposed to a consummate insider whose firm once made millions managing state pensions funds during Governor Blago's reign.
The Kitchen Network: America's underground Chinese restaurant workers
The New Yorker
There are more than forty thousand Chinese restaurants across the country—nearly three times the number of McDonald’s outlets. The restaurants, connected by Chinese-run bus companies to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, make up an underground network—supported by employment agencies, immigrant hostels, and expensive asylum lawyers—that reaches back to villages and cities in China, which are being abandoned for an ideal of American life that is not quite real.
Friday Nite Videos -- November 7, 2014
Portside
Election Day: Money vs Ideas. The Bus Boys: The Minimum Wage Song. First Anti-Corruption Act in US History Passes. James Randi: Homeopathy, Quackery and Fraud. How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain.
An Election of Money vs Ideas. And the Winner Is ...
Team coverage of the celebrations at the campaign headquarters of Money and the bitter disappointment at the campaign headquarters of Ideas.
The Bus Boys: The Minimum Wage Song
Class, race and music come together as the Bus Boys sing the Minimum Wage song from the kitchen of Carlos and Charlie's restaurant in 1979.
First Anti-Corruption Act in US History Passes
On Nov. 4th, 2014, voters in Tallahassee, Florida, made history by approving the first city Anti-Corruption Act in the United States by an overwhelming 2 – 1 margin.
James Randi: Homeopathy, Quackery and Fraud
Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a million dollar challenge to the world's psychics to prove what they do is real.
How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout.
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