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January 4, 2025

How Trump Nominees Could Make Project 2025 a Reality

Amanda Becker The 19th

While many of the policies in Project 2025 have been floating around Republican circles for years, the document is a roadmap that shows how its authors believe they can finally deliver on key pieces of their conservative Christian agenda.

January 4, 2025

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

Katya Schwenk Jacobin

After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97 percent of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.

January 4, 2025

Dockworkers To Resume Contract Negotiations

Emily Peck Axios

Strike threat looms.

January 4, 2025

Unions Get Bigger in Texas

Emily Markwiese The Progressive

Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

January 3, 2025

Election Results

Beau Beausoleil

Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.

January 3, 2025

Alabama Profits off Prisoners Who Work at McDonald’s But Deems Them Too Dangerous for Parole

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.

Why the Trumpiest Congress May Not Deliver Trump's Agenda

January 3, 2025

A narrower majority and a hollowed-out center might mean the Trumpiest Congress ever might fail to deliver his agenda.

How Elon Musk Is Corrupting the Government

January 3, 2025

Advertisers are returning to X after a year-long boycott. They want to buy influence with Trump’s shadow president Elon Musk.

Scientists Versus Dartmouth: Inside a Sexual Harassment Scandal

January 3, 2025

In 2017, a group of students at Dartmouth College filed a lawsuit that revealed an entrenched culture of power and abuse, and in doing so, they sparked a wider conversation about sexual violence in science.

Suze Rotolo Interview: Of Bob Dylan, New York and Art

January 3, 2025

Suze Rotolo (20 Nov 1943 - 24 Feb 2011) — the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — talks candidly about her relationship with Dylan in the '60s #bobdylan #suzerotolo . Interview at publication of Rotolo's memoir, A Freewheelin' Time.