The Tyranny of Convenience
From the New York Times: Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit…
People Want 3 Things from Work, But Most Firms Are Built Around Only One
From today’s Harvard Business Review: Strike up a conversation about work values, and it won’t be long before someone brings up a pyramid — a famous psychologist’s best-known theory. Abraham…
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A Flurry of Courts Have Ruled on Election Maps. Here’s What They’ve Said
From today’s New York Times: Judges in a number of states have recently thrown out election maps, saying that they have been gerrymandered to the point of being unconstitutional, effectively…
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Why the Trump-led GOP Continues to be the Party of Massive Budget Deficits
From today’s LA Times: The Trump administration proposed a spending plan on Monday that projects deficits as far as the eye can see, giving up the longtime Republican goal of…
Opinion: The ‘Manly’ Jobs Problem
From today’s New York Times: Insults, groping — even assault. That kind of sexual harassment came along with being one of the very few women on a construction site, in…
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When Wall Street Writes Its Own Rules, It’s An Age of Unprecedented Corruption
From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States…
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SCOTUS conservatives set to strike down union fees on free-speech grounds
From today’s LA Times: Paying union dues and baking a wedding cake may not seem like classic examples of free speech—except perhaps at the Supreme Court. This year, the high…
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#VotingRights Update: Group Targets GOP States to Attack Gerrymandering
From today’s New York Times: A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama intends to pour millions of dollars into an eclectic array of elections in a dozen states,…
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Market Update: Why Rising Wages Are Scaring the Hell Out of Stock Investors
From today’s Slate Magazine: On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released a strong jobs report showing wages rising at their fastest rate since the Great Recession. Then, the stock…
How Wells Fargo and Federal Reserve Struck Deal to Hold Board Accountable
From today’s New York Times: On a Thursday evening in mid-January, a group of top Wells Fargo executives sat down for dinner in an upscale surf-and-turf restaurant near the White…