Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
The post Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals appeared first on The Intercept.
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The link between income distribution and aggregate demand is central to post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, yet largely sidelined in mainstream policy debates. The logic is simple: lower-income households have a higher marginal propensity to consume than the wealthy. An extra euro in the hands of a poorer household is mostly spent; in the hands of […]
Pete McTighe has the vibe of being the showrunner-in-waiting for Doctor Who, based on his work over the past decade. Is he the best choice?
~by Sean Paul Kelley The Chinese rail network now carries 23 million passengers a day. Multiply that by 365 and it carries 8.365 billion passengers a year. And does not account for the increase in passengers during major holidays. Now consider these two facts. First, India’s rail network carries 23 million passengers a day also. […]
Currency Collapse is Codswallop. Why the Currency Crisis Crew have it backwards, yet again.
~by Sean Paul Kelley So, Marku asks: But aren’t most of those contracts never expecting to take physical delivery? Just gambling, er excuse me, investment hedging? Or is the problem that given that Comex price is under the real, that all those contracts *want* to be exercised in delivery so they can arbitrage to China […]
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California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.
In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl puts forward several compelling reasons why the now so popular causal graph-theoretic approach is to be preferred over more traditional regression-based explanatory models. One reason is that causal graphs are non-parametric and therefore do not need to assume, for example, additivity and/or the absence of interaction effects — […]
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.
By invoking Franklin D. Roosevelt’s warning about economic hardship and fascism, AOC is arguing that working-class populism isn’t just good policy — it’s democracy’s last line of defense.
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POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss California USA is a right-wing Catholic who picked a fight with zionists at a meeting of the Commission. Here’s how NBC describes the dust-up: A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission […]
The disclosures revealed the case was built entirely on an op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-wrote, a chilling attack on free speech.
The post Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student appeared first on The Intercept.
Today’s High Court decision that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is disproportionate and unlawful is a welcome victory for the whole Palestine movement. It is also a humiliating defeat for a Labour government marked by authoritarianism and repeated attacks on civil liberties. Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary when the ban was introduced, […]
An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’s aggressive push to restart their operations. When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about […]
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South Memphis was already struggling with poor air quality — and then a colossal gas-powered data center came to town.
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
The post The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. appeared first on The Intercept.
A Democrat running for Senate in Texas has a complicated history with corporate America and the crypto industry.
The post Jasmine Crockett Swears Off Corporate Cash — But Transferred Thousands From Her House Campaign appeared first on The Intercept.
I’m not a Rawlsian, though I would admit to certain affinities, and, indeed, I’ve used the device associated with Rawls (though not invented by him) of the veil of ignorance in my own work. But when I disagree with Rawls, I hope I at least take the trouble to get him right. Sadly, one can’t […]
Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we’re unhappy and looking for solutions.
The post The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk appeared first on The Intercept.
How Martin made peace with the disturbing, intrusive thoughts that characterise sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder
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The Trump Justice Department is protecting the powerful at the expense of Epstein’s victims, says an attorney representing nine of his accusers.
The post Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG appeared first on The Intercept.