Big Business’ Plan to Block Biden’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s rule faces a gauntlet of lobbyists led by the Chamber of Commerce.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Meet New Washington Post Columnist Jim Geraghty and His Malfunctioning Noggin
Geraghty exudes the conspiratorial mindset that afflicts conservative thinking.
In Confidential Memo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Celebrated Unemployment as a “Worker-Discipline Device”
Yellen wanted this to be the best of all possible worlds, but the best world she could conceive of was terrible.
Rachel Maddow Stopped Short in Her Podcast on Nazi-Loving Hamilton Fish III
The congressman, who conspired with Hitler's Germany, became a huge Reagan fan.
Listen to Barack Obama’s Chilling Description of U.S. Involvement in the Gigantic 1965 Indonesia Massacre
This week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged the “staggering mass slaughter” that took place 57 years ago.
Inflation Is Slowing — Without the Higher Unemployment Larry Summers Said Was Necessary
New data shows the call for yearslong recession from monetary hawks like Summers has aged poorly.
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Merry Christmas! We’re All Being Murdered by Capitalism.
Here at The Intercept, we are committed to ruining the holidays.
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Who Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It.
In capitalism, managers aren’t in charge. They’re well-compensated employees.
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Remember When Bush-Era College Republicans Sang About Slaughtering “the Left”?
The jolly tune was written from the perspective of Nazi Germany.
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The Pandemic and War — Not Government Spending — Caused Inflation, According to Nobel Prize Winner
A new paper by Joseph Stiglitz and Ira Regmi has huge implications for everything about who holds power in American life.