What Is DOGE Doing to Social Security?

Monique Morrissey Economic Policy Institute
Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts.

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

Unions Without Strikes

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
Military with batons in the foreground. Striking workers in the background w
Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

The IP Laws That Promote Enshittification

Cory Doctorow Jacobin
Laws included in trade deals protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.