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DoorDash’s anti-worker tactics backfired spectacularly in ruling on forced arbitration
The food delivery company DoorDash made its delivery workers sign away their right to sue if a legal dispute arises between a worker and the company. Instead, disputes would be resolved by a privatized arbitration system that tends to favor corporate parties.
Under Judge William Alsup’s…
AOC asks Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg if she can run fake political ads
On Wednesday, Zuckerberg appeared in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee that was supposed to be about Facebook’s Libra crypto project but that wound up being about pretty much any Facebook-related issue under the sun. Members of Congress grilled the executive on the litany o…
House Republicans’ SCIF storming harmed US national security: expert
House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a secretive facility at the Capitol in which the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry was conducting a deposition of a Pentagon official on US policy toward Ukraine. In doing so, they put America’s national security at risk.
That didn’t matter to about…
Read: transcript of Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president
Trump is embroiled in a crisis about whether he improperly used his position to try to coerce Zelensky into investigating Trump’s 2020 political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden — perhaps by withholding military aid to the Eastern European country.
To prove his innocence, Trump …
Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
Amid a flurry of ambitious state action on climate change policy, the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature has just passed an energy bill that represents an enormous step backward. It is the most counterproductive and corrupt piece of state energy legislation I can recall in all my time coveri…
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg talks “do not track” legislation on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode
People don’t realize just how much they’re being tracked online, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg — but he’s confident that once they learn how much tech companies like Google and Facebook are quietly slurping up their private data, they will demand a change.
“They’re getting purchase h…
Antibiotic drug resistance is creating a global crisis, UN report says
“Common diseases are becoming untreatable.” That’s the blunt warning issued on page one of a major new United Nations report on drug resistance. If we don’t make a radical change now, the report says, drug-resistant diseases could kill 10 million people a year by 2050.
Drug resistance i…
Contempt of Congress: what it means for AG William Barr
Frustrated by weeks of missed subpoena deadlines and pushback from the Trump administration, the House Judiciary Committee will vote on a contempt resolution this Wednesday after Barr failed to deliver Mueller’s complete, unredacted report by a Monday deadline. The contempt resolution would also…
Tim Armstrong wants to create Coachella, but for retailers. What does that mean?
But Armstrong hasn’t left behind the worlds of media and entertainment altogether. At least that’s what it sounds like. Dtx has plans for some kind of retail experience — another merger, in fact — that Armstrong has called a mix of the Coachella music festival and the Consumer Electronics Show. …
Wells Fargo workers worry the bank still has unethical business practices
Wells Fargo lost so much public trust for the bank’s shady business practices, which came to light in the aftermath of the Great Recession, that it spent much of last year apologizing with its Wells Fargo “Re-established” campaign. But according to a new report from the New York Times, the natio…
Measles outbreak 2019: States make it too easy to avoid vaccines
In New York City, the virus has been spreading since September among Orthodox Jews, some of whom reject vaccines on behalf of their children because of unfounded safety concerns. In Washington, mistrust of health officials and pharmaceutical companies appears to be driving parents to opt out, le…
Mueller news: Michael Flynn sentencing memo expected Tuesday
It’s been a long year since Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — and in that time, we’ve gotten no confirmation of what that cooperation entailed.
But on Tuesday, Mueller’s office is due to file a…
Midterms 2018: Cybersecurity and Russian hacking remain a major concern
An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.
One evening last May in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the night of the local primary election, Dave Ball, the assistant IT director for Knox County, settled into the Naugahyde chair of …
Midterm elections 2018 predictions: new poll finds tight House races
Democrats have a notably small lead, given their hopes of taking back the House of Representatives in November.
With the 2018 midterm elections just two weeks away, it appears neither Democrats nor Republicans have much reason to breathe easy. A new poll of battleground House districts s…
2018 midterm elections: 10 states will decide the fight for the Senate
These states will determine who controls the Senate in 2019.
Kevin Williamson on Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act
I’m not sure he actually read Warren’s corporate accountability bill.
Meet the Democrat trying to unseat scandal-plagued Rep. Jim Jordan in his heavily Republican district
Janet Garrett, Jordan’s third-time challenger, has already raised well into six-figures in Ohio.
New polls show Democrats have a narrow path to a Senate majority
What the latest Senate polls tell us about the state of the 2018 midterm elections.
Why social conservatives are disappointed that Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh
The selection of Brett Kavanaugh as a replacement for retired Justice Anthony Kennedy has been met by mild disappointment by some Republicans who were hoping for a more exciting (and base-invigorating) pick, someone they would be certain would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
As National Re…
The 4 risky options to rescue the Thai boys trapped in a cave, explained
Thai officials are still fine-tuning the plan to rescue the 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach who are trapped in a cave in northern Thailand, as the possibility of heavy rains that could threaten the boys’ safety remains.
Live results in Colorado’s primary for governor and key House race
An open governor’s seat and a vulnerable Republican House seat.
Trump’s campaign manager says Trump should fire Jeff Sessions and end Mueller investigation
Make Constitutional Crises Great Again.
Donald Trump, the family separation crisis, and the triumph of cruelty
Trump's immigration crackdown is an exercise in government cruelty.