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At Wednesday’s oral argument in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, the court will consider whether Michael Hewitt, an oil-rig worker, was wrongly denied overtime pay. At the heart of the case are rules allowing highly compensated “executive, administrative, or professional” employees to b

The executive branch proposes a rule, a district court judge can block it, then one member of the Supreme Court determines if Congress would have approved of that rule.

The paragraph (below) sums up the predicament of the post-social world: there is hardly any difference in information, misinformation, and disinformation anymore. You have to spend more energy and …

South Africa wanted to be the first African nation to host the World Cup. They also wanted the tournament to be the start of a new chapter. During apartheid, the country was banned from the international sporting community. But in 2004, they were on the precipice of hosting soccer’s biggest event. South Africans gathered in

In the face of the geopolitical and climate crisis, the question of sovereignty is on everyone's lips. Each country is seeking to regain control of its destiny, its supplies and its production chains. People are even talking about European sovereignty, sovereignist federalism or federal sovereignism. A contradiction in terms? Not necessarily, but on condition that … p class="link-more"a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2022/10/11/rethinking-federalism/" class="more-link"Continuer la lecturespan class="screen-reader-text" de « Rethinking federalism »/span/a/p

Co-ops are a big part of the global economy: they employ 10% of the world's workforce and over two trillion dollars flow through their doors every year. At a co-op, there's no single person with overarching, top-down power over everyone else, like a CEO at a traditional company. So what exactly is a co-op and how does it work? Explore the different types of cooperatives and how they operate. [Directed by Elizabeth Galian, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by George Zaidan, music by André Aires, João Mendes].

In a little-noticed case on pork production, the justices could pare back the tools that California and other progressive states use to regulate a wide array of industries.

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

One of the smartest people we know is the Political Economy professor from Brown University, Mark Blyth. Before NN Taleb was a thing, he gave Mark the

The proposals were agreed on by members of the conservative, libertarian, and progressive teams participating in the NCC's earlier constitution drafting project.

The sound of gentrification is silence.

The sound of gentrification is silence. I didn't yet know that you don't live on an Ivy League campus. You reside on one. Living is loud and messy, but residing? Residing is quiet business. [...] I soon realized that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered. Yet it was an aesthetic at odds with who I was. Who a lot of us were. Within a few weeks, the ...

“Cancel Culture” is perhaps the most useless but still over-used phrases in the lexicon of our ongoing culture war. More often than not, it’s used as a catch-all term that mutates…

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Among the great challenges posed to democracy today is the use of technology, data, and automated systems in ways that threaten the rights of the American public. Too often, these tools are used to limit our opportunities and prevent our access to critical resources or services. These problems are well documented. In America and around…

AI is unavoidable, but its deployment can be more nuanced.

Machine learning algorithms could be more accurate and reliable than conventional methods of predicting suicide risk.

At the Colorado State Fair’s 150th anniversary, Latinos express despondency for their city and country’s future.

The phone in your pocket cost $600, but that was two years ago, so now, it seems to be free and fully paid for. The upgrade has a slightly better camera and a slightly faster processor. Here’…

Disenrolled Nooksack citizens believe that the U.S.-Canada border, and legal metrics like blood quantum, ignore the nuances of pre-colonial Indigenous belonging.

How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.

Big Noise Tactical Media was a radical media collective founded circa 1998 by Jacque Soohen and Rick Rowley. “Zapatista (1998), Black and Gold (1999), and This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000), …

As Langston Hughes said in 1936, “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America.” Antifa means anti-fascist. Do you believe in and support fascism? Do you beli…