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Amy Barrett and the Corporate Crusade for Control of the Supreme Court

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) NBC
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing October 13th.
This week US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) charged corporate dark money is behind a plot, bearing all the marks of a covert operation, to control the Supreme Court and undermine the independence of the judicial branch of the federal government.

When Did Insects Evolve?

Gwen Pearson Wired
Our Planet of the Arthropods is dominated by insects, and when and how insects took over the earth is a question that’s puzzled naturalists for centuries. In an incredible international effort, 100 scientists combined their molecular, computational biology, statistics, paleontology, and taxonomic expertise to uncover some surprising conclusions about when major groups of insects evolved.

Frenzied Financialization

Michael Konczal Washington Monthly
Shrinking the financial sector will make us all richer.

Bruce Rauner Keeps it in the Daley Family

Ben Joravsky 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.