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The National Labor Relations Board based its joint-employer rule on the reality of today’s workforces. So of course a Trump-appointed judge overturned it.
Biden’s EPA wants all lead pipes removed to save children from lead poisoning. These red states don’t want to spend the money.
The SEC was poised to order companies to make full disclosures of their global warming risks. Why did it back off?
Biden’s budget infusion for the IRS produced a bounty of revenue from audits of the rich — about $6 in revenue for every $1 spent. It’s hard to find a better bargain.
AstraZeneca loses its case against Biden’s Medicare drug negotiation program, hinting at the fate of the industry’s many other lawsuits against the price-cutting initiative.
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy issued attacks on child vaccinations, including for polio, last week. They want to return us to the 1950s, when preventable diseases struck millions of Americans.
Austin and Miami promoted themselves as new Silicon Valleys, but they were never more than Silicon Valley wannabes.
Florida’s quack surgeon general Joseph Ladapo dismisses the threat of measles, but the danger is deadly and real.
Vanguard has a long history of denying its customers access to investments it believes are dumb. Now it has added crypto to the list.
Johns Hopkins, Yale and others are offering scientists and physicians guides for addressing misinformation and disinformation. It’s an uphill battle.
