The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to compensate President Donald Trump and his allies—including the January 6 insurrectionists for being brought to justice after storming the Capitol in 2021.

The Justice Department’s announcement that it will set a $1.8 billion slush fund to settle a $10…

A bill from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposes a moratorium on new AI data centers until oversight mechanisms and legal safeguards are in place. Only federal legislation stands a chance at leashing a monster of this size.

Critical of the wealthy accumulating power at everyone else’s expense, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are warning that unregulated AI…

After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages.

The subminimum wage for service workers creates a two-tiered labor system that intensifies the exploitation of precarious workers — and the Chicago city council voted last week to block an attempt…