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CEO Greed Feasts on the Sweat of Low-Paid Workers—And Here’s the Proof

One-hundred S&P 500 firms with the lowest median wages, a group we’ve dubbed the “Low-Wage 100,” blew $522 billion over the past five years on stock buybacks.

By Sarah Anderson • Aug 29, 2024


Elite News Media Are Blowing Yet Another Election

Major outlets have proved so bad at this, many candidates—and increasingly the voting public as well—would just as soon get by without them. Are they wrong?

By Will Bunch • Aug 28, 2024


Why Are Liberal Zionists Cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza?

J Street is eager to define the limits of acceptable criticism of Israeli government policies from the Democratic Party establishment—setting aside human rights as secondary to the mantra of Israel’s “right to exist.”

By Abba Solomon • Aug 27, 2024


7 Steps to What a Real Renewable Energy Transition Looks Like

Historically, an overhaul for humanity's energy system would take hundreds or many thousands of years. The rapid shift to cleaner, more sustainable sources of power generations will easily be the most ambitious enterprise our species has ever undertaken.

By Richard Heinberg • Aug 25, 2024