Tiny homes, big problems

September 17, 2023 with Matt Turner Hi, welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today: The SEC is asking questions about Boxabl, the buzzy tiny-home startup. A software engineer who moved to Seattle said it was the […]

Pharmaceutical-Grade Monopolies

Sponsored by MUBI Daniel J. Kevles Unreasonable Terms In Owning the Sun, Alexander Zaitchik shows how American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest. Lynn Hunt The Orphan Among Revolutions Christopher Clark’s history of the 1848 revolutions highlights the destinies of individuals and the legacy of […]

The Middle Class Is Increasingly Becoming “The Impoverished Class”, And The Poor Are Increasingly Being Pushed Into The Streets

September 12, 2023 by Michael ShareTweet America’s middle class is being systematically eviscerated.  When the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system during the pandemic, most Americans didn’t realize what that would do to them.  That money certainly made the wealthy a whole lot wealthier, […]

Cop City and the Silencing of Dissent

September 15, 2023 “Tearing down trees in Black and brown communities at a moment of reckoning with the climate crisis to perpetuate the prison-industrial complex demonstrates an astounding lack of morality,” write representatives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush of Atlanta’s Cop City. Last week, Georgia’s Republican attorney general […]

The New Colonialist Food Economy

FEATURED The New Colonialist Food Economy How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South. ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK FROM THIS ISSUE America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, […]

A Musk genius

September 16, 2023   A NOTE FROM FORTUNE Fortune executive editor Nick Lichtenberg here, filling in for Alyson.   This week, the big one dropped. Walter Isaacson, the former Time editor turned documenter of genius brains from Leonardo da Vinci to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, dropped his much anticipated all-access […]

Your manager is burnt out

September 16, 2023 • 4 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Welcome to the weekend, friends! I’m hoping to play a bit of pickleball now that the weather is cooling down. If you’re interested in trying it out or are just starting, a professional player revealed what new […]

A Marx for All Seasons

In the Review’s September 21, 2023, issue, Ben Tarnoff reviews two recent books on the history of Silicon Valley, where “money begets money with an ease that would make Andrew Carnegie weep.” His essay ends with a reflection on the “neurotic character” of most of the region’s capitalists, who champion […]

Round-Table #88: 2024 US Election: Tomorrow at 2 pm Eastern.

I will be joined by Keith Preston and due to schedule and life changes Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy will be replaced by Florian Ulrich and Aleksey. We will discuss predictions on the 2024 Election. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… […]