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Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Share of Income Is Sinking.

Conor Lynch Jacobin magazine
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes

Veronica Riccobene, Helen Santoro The Lever
Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

The Parrot in the Machine

James Gleick The New York Review of Books
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

Collective Property, Private Control

Laleh Khalili London Review of Books
The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

UAW President Shawn Fain on Why He Supports Tariffs

Shawn Fain, David Sirota Convergence
In an interview, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain argues that the era of “free-trade” deals like NAFTA has been a disaster for the US working class and that smart tariffs can help bring back good auto jobs.

The DOGE Czar’s Plan To Loot Medicare

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
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