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Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

In the post-war period, much of the non-communist world was opened up to US domination by tactics of this sort. This became the method of choice to fight off the threat of communist insurgencies and revolution, entailing an anti-democratic (and even more emphatically anti-populist and anti-socialist/communist) strategy on the part of the US that pu

David Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

As the 6 most expensive ballot measures in the past 20 years have all gone in favor of the bigger spender, it seems like Uber et. al. have a good chance of winning. But is this the kind of country we want to live in, one in which special interest groups are re-writing and buying their own employment law?

Li Jin • Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22

Barton career can be summed up by his mantra “Power to the People”. His companies take power from the incumbents and give it to consumers. Instead of trying to hoard information, they are on the side of consumers and giving them more data transparency.

kwokchain.com • Making Uncommon Knowledge Common

We’re concerned that the gig model is reliant on the misclassification of workers, and fear for the future of work in this country should the model continue to gain steam without significant updates.

Li Jin • Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22

Think about it. Party officials can count on certain reporters to “play ball.” News reporters send yet-to-be-published work to party and government officials for input and approval. That makes some news organizations not terribly different from propaganda outlets.

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

Trump will render Messina’s and Rove’s entrenched systems functionally worthless in the blink of an eye. The secretly gathered information, the well-honed political connections, the smears, the cozy Washington, D.C., alliances, the revolving door, the backscratching, the favors bought and earned, the whole darn establishment.

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

Protections against government tyranny do not prevent societies from tyrannizing themselves through the force of public opinion.

Timur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton

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