Pluralistic: NLRB rules that any union busting triggers automatic union recognition (06 Sept 2023)

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NLRB rules that any union busting means automatic union recognition: Biden's photocopier-kickers will give American workers the unions they desperately desire.
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Pluralistic: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things (03 June 2023)

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.
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Pluralistic: Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk (05 May 2023)

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Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk: We swapped pandemic aid, new spending and minimum wage hikes for wage suppression and mass layoffs.
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Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy (29 Mar 2023)

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.
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Pluralistic: Care Inflation (18 Jan 2023)

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Care Inflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about.
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Pluralistic: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse (02 Dec 2022)

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How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation!
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Pluralistic: 23 Aug 2022 Tory UK is in serious trouble

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Tory Britain is crashing and burning: They got Brexit done.
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Pluralistic: 02 Aug 2022

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The high cost of "self-funded" Democrats: Rich dilletantes will not save us.
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Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2022

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Countervailing power: Finding the hairball's loose ends.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2022

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The antitrust case against gig companies: Either they're violating employment law, or they're violating antitrust.
Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is: Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.
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