Pinch me! Last Tuesday Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo decisively in the Democratic primary for Mayor of NYC and I am still…
The Rise of Surveillance Wages
There is no investigation that can give New Yorkers a governor we can trust not to abuse power and lie
What Democrats Can Do to Block Trumpās Supreme Court Pick
Lawmakers are about to undertake their first major antitrust hearing in 50 years. They should make tech companies squirm
The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing
Googleās actions make it more important than ever that we stand up to fight monopolies. At the end of the day, this is about freedom
A year ago, the FCC had sold out. Now itās pushing real net neutrality. What happened in between proves that people power works
We can keep protesting our own democracy, despite the facts, or we can actually deal with the root cause
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