#Pluralistic

Sooner or later everyone (and I do mean everyone) is gonna have to realize that functioning pluralistic democracy requires learning how to get along peaceably with people who are fundamentally

In world of morally compromised technology and markets, a few entities stand out as consistently on the side of right. @ConsumerReports is one of them.For 85 years, they have produced

Private equity was always a catastrophically destructive grift. Just ask employees of the Olive Garden, Toys R Us or Sears. And PE's expansion into health care was terrible even before

Do you feel guilty about ordering stuff from Amazon during the lockdown, even as the company fires and smears workers demanding safe working conditions, and withdraws the paltry $2/hour hazard

This week on my podcast, the second part of a five (?) part serialized reading of my 2020 One Zero book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that

When I give talks about surveillance in Silicon Valley, techies will say, "Well, I don't care if Google gets my data to show me better ads, but the NSA is

A plea in the SC to remove the words, 'Secular' and 'Socialist' from the Preamble of the Constitution. A process which should have been carried out right after the emergency.

Nationwide, the American south is facing the worst harms from coronavirus (as @yvessmith points out, big blue cities get more coverage because that's where the press lives).https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/0

The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Political economy vs inflation; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/01/mayday/#Pluralistic1/ On May 7, the Gaithersburg Book Festival is featuring me in an interview c

Grace is a Black 15 year old child with ADHD who has been in jail since the start of pandemic because she could not do her homework, which meant she

A Black Michigan teen with ADHD who was imprisoned for not doing her homework during the lockdown has been ordered released to her mother, after months of incarceration.https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2020/07/31/

Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fiction's most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his

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I am going to say one more thing because I'm a FOOL. Never, EVER say "it's sad the Jews are doing this," or "didn't the Jews learn from the Holocaust?"The

Medtech giant Medtronic is quite a piece of work. The company started as a Minneapolis repair shop before growing to be one of the world's largest, most profitable - and

You've probably noticed that there's a lot of bad stuff going on with the US Postal Service, the most popular US government agency (91% favorable rating!). Trump has definitely been