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Integrity Watch: Harvard Fake Data Scandal Explained

July 14, 2023

A top professor at Harvard University was exposed for data fraud. And she isn't the only example of data fraud in the industry.

Jack Smith Smacks Down 'Frivolous' Trump Delay Move

July 14, 2023

Special Counsel Jack Smith files court papers shredding the Trump team's proposal to postpone the Trump documents trial indefinitely.

AOC Teams Up With UPS Workers

July 14, 2023

We hit a Teamsters practice picket with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and hundreds of workers, who told us why 340,000 of them are ready to strike.

The Greediest 'Non-Profit' Hospital in America

July 14, 2023

92,000 employees. Revenue of roughly $26 billion. But its flagship hospital recently made headlines for being the least charitable non-profit hospital in the country.

July 14, 2023

A Voice That Has Shaped the Court and the Country: One Year of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Candice Norwood The 19th

In her first year on the Supreme Court, Jackson's words have offered historical context as the majority-conservative bench has weighed in on rights for historically marginalized groups.

July 14, 2023

“Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy

Michael Schulman The New Yorker

The innovative and daring show Orange Is the New Black was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated.

July 14, 2023

A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?

Sam Pizzigati Inequality.org

Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.

July 14, 2023

Where Am ‘I’? Your Brain and You

Diana Kwon Scientific American

How does your brain create a physical sense of self? New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body.

July 14, 2023

The Workers at the Frontlines of the AI Revolution

Andrew Deck rest of world

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

July 14, 2023

History Repeats Itself

W. D. Ehrhart

A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”