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The Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for a global tax on high earners at 70% and a 2-3% wealth tax on large fortunes to combat widening inequality. He also talks about war profiteering, politicians who want more inequality and the sperm lottery.

Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted overwhelmingly to join together in a union with the AFSCME Council 5.

According to the latest data, the ranks of unionized workers grew by 200,000 between 2021 and 2022. If the United States’ unionization rules in place weren’t so biased toward bosses, tens of millions more workers indicate they would have joined a union, too.

America’s unbreakable fixation with football will only lead to more injuries like Damar Hamlin’s. A uniquely American concoction of capitalism and culture has allowed football to continue to thrive, even as the dangers it presents to players, both professional and amateur, have become clearer. Football remains the biggest hit on TV.

A U.S. startup carried out a geoengineering experiment in Mexico, which the country claims was done without prior notice and consent

The Russo-Ukrainian War and the rest of us.

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The U.S. has only days to act before Netanyahu destroys the Israeli High Court.

Should China should be terrified that its population is now falling, as all our leading news outlets are telling us?

Miniaturization, experimentation, and A.I. have unlocked revolutionary potential in an old technology.