Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), introduced the Social Security Expansion Act. The legislation would apply ...

The case was brought by a coalition of labor unions and advocacy groups, who sued OPM after the agency ordered thousands of probationary federal employees to be fired.

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.” This article was produced by Economy for All, a project ...

As I’ve written previously for Occupy.com, Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire carrying out a soft coup with the tacit blessing of President Donald Trump. In just over a month, Musk has managed to ...

President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton represented the status quo that Trump ran against and defeated. Like them, he was completely insulated from the harsh boomerang effects of the warfare state.

In a fiery speech before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed the Republican Party for allowing Elon Musk to derail bipartisan drug ...

A broad range of Americans are organizing a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America. From The ...

What we just saw is the largest mass noncompliance with Elon Musk (so far). The White House press secretary claimed that around one million federal workers have replied, which means that nearly 1.5 ...

My work on kottke.org has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, and dozens of other media outlets. I was an early advisor to BuzzFeed and helped them hire two key early employees ...

Our recent book, “ How Government Built America ,” shows why the administration’s aim to eliminate government could result in an America that the country’s people have never experienced – one in which ...

Elon Musk has carefully crafted an image of himself as a self-made billionaire, a bold entrepreneur who disrupts industries and thrives through private-sector innovation. But an extensive Washington ...

Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek orders mass layoffs, raising concerns of service collapse and benefit delays for millions of Americans.