The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Now, amid an unprecedented lobbying push and with corporate allies ensconced in key regulatory agencies, the industries are clamoring for a nationwide […]
A report from MIT says that the overwhelming majority of generative artificial intelligence implementations are failing — 95 percent of them, in fact. That’s a lot of failure. For a series of technologies touted as the answer to every question ever asked, literally and figuratively, the incapacity of companies to effectively integrate AI into their […]
“When we return from the summer break, there’ll be a clash between reality and ideology.” Thus insisted French prime minister François Bayrou at yet another press conference to defend his austerity budget, which promises an extra €44 billion in spending cuts. Bayrou here echoed the usual neoliberal refrain: public debt is an absolute evil, and […]
Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson and Shri Thanedar want ICE to explain why and how a $2.25 million contract was awarded without competition to a company owned by a prominent Republican donor.
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt casually dropped one of the most memorable lines in American political history. “My friends,” he said in a campaign speech, “judge me by the enemies I have made.” He was talking about Wall Street financiers, corporate monopolists, and the rest of the United States’ financial elite. Now it’s 2025, and we’re looking at a very different political landscape. But FDR’s message remains true: you really can judge a politician by the forces arrayed against them. And with that in mind, Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh has a roster of enemies anyone could be proud of. From the deranged racists attacking him online for his Somali heritage, to the corporate Democrats making shady backroom deals and alliances against him, his opponents represent everything people hate about politics in America.
Nearly 500 employees of a South Korean battery maker were arrested at a Hyundai plant in Georgia in what US authorities called the largest-ever immigration raid.