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‘Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent’ – HarperCollins Workers Strike!

Steve Wishnia Labor Press
One picketer’s sign riffed on Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, which HarperCollins publishes. “Where the Wild Things Are Underpaid,” it read, with drawings of Max’s sailboat and one of the monsters he encounters.

Welcome to the Anthropocene – The Age of Human Die-Offs

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
We are stumbling — seemingly oblivious — into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it’s not here

Religion of the Market

L. Benjamin Rolsky Los Angeles Review of Books
This new book is a contribution to our understanding of the last half century of both U.S. and global economic policy.

It’s Time for Public Pharma

Alexander Sammon The American Prospect
Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care