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The Crypto State

Ramaa Vasudevan, Daniel Finn Jacobin
The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic.

PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

Lucy Dean Stockton Jacobin
Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is increasingly seeking to reach children, hoping to fill the Sesame Street–sized hole left by the defunding of PBS.

The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Co

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Mark Blyth, Daniel Driscoll Project Syndicate
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to ensure that fossil fuels remain dominant in the energy mix of the twenty-first century. If it succeeds, the short-term returns to the US will be huge; but the long-term damage to the planet will

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

Clint Smith The Atlantic
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.