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Mother Jones • Oct 6, 2025
It’s Time for Soft Secession
In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? […]
Semafor • Oct 6, 2025
African capitalism can’t create wealth without effective public policy
Governments must urgently address security, energy, and finance challenges.
Semafor • Oct 6, 2025
Malawi’s new leader faces severe economic challenges
The already impoverished country is facing an economic crisis, marked by soaring inflation and food shortages.
Semafor • Oct 6, 2025
Australian state may workers give legal right to WFH
Victoria, the country’s second-most-populous state, plans to give workers the legal right to work from home two days per week starting next year.
Semafor • Oct 6, 2025
Trump won't budge on key Democratic shutdown demand
The opposition may yet get him to cut a deal on extending health care subsidies. Limits to his spending power are more out of reach.
Semafor • Oct 5, 2025
US considers bailout for soybean farmers
The humble soybean has become a flashpoint in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Lever News • Oct 3, 2025
Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power
Regulators just greenlit BlackRock’s acquisition of a Midwestern power company — the latest deal in the private equity giant’s spending spree on public infrastructure.
Mother Jones • Oct 3, 2025
Russ Vought Is Trump’s Shutdown Hero. His Neighbors Think His Work Is “Abhorrent.”
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump shared a music video on Truth Social. In it, an AI-generated Russ Vought—Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget and a Project 2025 mastermind—is the grim reaper, carrying a scythe along a hallway lined with portraits of Democratic leaders. Vought, the video’s soundtrack explains, “wields the pen, […]
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400 headlinesMichigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
The Conversation •
Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
The Conversation •
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