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Stolen Wages

It’s hardly any wonder that Americans are rethinking work whenever they can and trying to not return to their crappy jobs. They are tremendously productive, making enormous profits for their bosses....

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Scenes from the Toasty New Gilded Age

Sir Richard Branson stand by the Virgin Galactic Space craft at the Farnborough International Airshow on Nov. 7, 2012 in Hampshire. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images) A few stories...

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University Architecture of the New Gilded Age

I love this story so much. It’s the most New Gilded Age story possible. “Absolutely stunning” is how the University of California, Santa Barbara, described plans for Munger Hall, a towering residence...

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The Injunction

In the Gilded Age, legally spurious injunctions were issued with impunity by courts based on the solid legal principle of fuck unions. That is returning in the New Gilded Age, as we see in Alabama: As...

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The Crypto Scam

I hate everything about cryptocurrency with the heat of a thousand suns. Made up libertarian money is like everything wrong with the New Gilded Age in one fake item. And of course, what this also taps...

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Tales from the New Gilded Age

I found this highly amusing, in a New Gilded Age sort of way. Jeff Bezos’ $500m superyacht is stuck after the Dutch firm building it decided against dismantling a historic Rotterdam bridge following a...

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The Billionaire Attacks on The Rest of Us

This is surely healthy for democracy! A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their...

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Elsewhere in the Neoliberal University

Look, I can’t think of any better use of the suckers’ skyrocketing tuition money than this: The University of Florida is making sure its newly hired president, former Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, can...

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Old School Unionbusting

As Stephen Greenhouse argues in The Guardian, the iconic companies of the new economy are kicking it real old school when it comes to unionbusting. US corporations have mounted a fierce counterattack...

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