There’s a growing unionization movement among tech workers, and most of their employers aren’t taking it well. That makes Microsoft’s agreement on Monday to stay neutral in a forthcoming organizing drive at Activision Blizzard, a gaming company it’s acquiring, an apparent breakthrough in an industry that’s become notoriously hostile to labor organizing.
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Eric Holder, the former frontline prosecutor and local judge who served as Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was never a fan of Donald Trump, but he responded cautiously in 2019 when asked whether Trump should face prosecution even after he left office. “I think there is a potential cost to the nation by putting on trial a former president, and that ought to at least be a part of the calculus that goes into the determination that has to be made by the next attorney general,” Holder told David Axelrod in a CNN interview. Читать дальше...
If you write about American politics, you spend a fair amount of time writing about why popular things can’t get done. Sometimes the reasons are pretty clear. Why hasn’t Congress legalized marijuana when about two-thirds of the electorate support it? Because there’s a massive age gap on support, for one, and Congress tends to skew older than most Americans who don’t still use Reefer Madness as a guiding policy text. Why can’t Medicare negotiate lower drug prices despite broad support from voters? Читать дальше...
