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Four Myths About Kamala Harris’s Loss

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
In assessing Donald Trump’s victory, pundits have claimed the country turned right, the Harris campaign was too far left and woke, Biden’s presidency was robustly populist, and racism and sexism made the result inevitable. Those claims are all wrong.

Billionaires Take Center Stage After US Elections

Philippe Alcoy Left Voice
More present than ever in this year’s presidential campaigns, billionaires seem poised to play a more direct role in the U.S. government. Is this reminiscent of post-Soviet restructuring in the heart of imperialism?

Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden Overtime Pay Rule

Daniel Wiessner Reuters
The rule would have required employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

Why Egg Prices Cause So Much Angst

Stacey Smith Bloomberg
Egg prices were up 28% in last month’s price report.Typically, when the price of something rises by as much as eggs have this past year, people will buy less of it.That’s not the case with eggs. Demand for eggs is relatively inelastic.

The Sense of an Endling

Tim Flannery The New York Review of Books
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

The LEADER Never Apologizes, Even to God

Carl Davidson LeftLinks
Donald Trump, our President-elect, is the head teacher of the Führerprinzip, the ‘Leader Principle.’ We only get to have one of them, nor do we need any more. ‘The Leader’ is all-knowing and infallible.