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A ‘gender identity’ protection law keeps religious families from a preschool benefit. Source link
The conventional story about AI and jobs goes like this: A machine learns to do what a human used to do, and the human is let go. That narrative treats displacement as a task-level event. A role is automated, so the role disappears. But a different mechanism is now visible in corporate earnings calls, SEC filings, and restructuring announcements. Companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, and the sheer scale of that investment is creating pressure to find savings elsewhere. Payroll is one of the largest controllable costs, so layoffs function as a way to self-fund the AI…
The independent from Nebraska is taking a second run at the U.S. Senate, against an even more appropriate opponent for his working class-vs.-billionaires message. Source link
For MAGA, familiarity may matter more than experience. Source link
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. The global economy is no longer wobbling — it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China, and its attempt to reassert dominance across the Western Hemisphere. The pillars that held the global system together for decades — stable…
European officials warned that the pipeline of weapons flowing to Ukraine could halt if the US breaks the ceasefire with Iran. A European diplomat speaking with Foreign Policy about the transfer of missile interceptors to Ukraine explained, “Everything will depend on the situation around Iran.” In February, the US and Israel started an unprovoked war against Iran. Tehran’s military strategy involves deploying large numbers of missiles and drones, depleting Washington’s interceptor stockpile. Ukraine is also in need of interceptors as the war against Russia continues. After Russia invaded in 2022, NATO leaders pledged to support Ukraine until it was able…
May 4, 2026 Joe Allen May Day protests, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Bette Lee. Ever since I moved to Chicago in 1993, May Day has progressively degenerated throughout the years, despite moving into the mainstream in a herky-jerky fashion. For many years, it wasn’t celebrated much beyond the very marginal radical left, but its move into the mainstream has been at a political cost—losing its revolutionary politics. The International Socialist Organization (ISO), for example, which I was a member of for four decades, held a yearly celebration with food and political talks on the revolutionary traditions in the U.S. working class.…
Expect the jockeying for the 2028 Republican nomination to continue – but only behind the scenes. Source link
An ad attacking Sen. Susan Collins in Maine claimed that she voted “to raise healthcare costs and raise insurance premiums,” as well as give President Donald Trump “a blank check for his war in Iran.” But neither claim fully explains Collins’ more nuanced position on those issues. For the healthcare claims, the ad cites her vote in September against a Democratic bill to, among other things, temporarily fund the federal government and permanently extend enhanced Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies beyond 2025. But Collins did support extending the subsidies with some restrictions — however, she said the extension should…
I’m delighted to report that Michael Auslin, a Distinguished Research Fellow here at Hoover, will be guest-blogging this week about his new book. From the publisher’s description: The inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence—the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today—charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals, published for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Quiet and politically untested, Thomas Jefferson was not the obvious choice to draft a statement of principles explaining why the American colonies were breaking ties…