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Love Is Blind just got hit with a federal labor complaint. Will it change anything?
In a first for the reality television industry, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) argued on Wednesday that contestants on Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind should be classified as employees — a designation that would give them significantly more on-set protections, including the ability to unionize. The filing by the NLRB’s regional office in […]
What really mattered in 2024
At the end of every year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held up or fell flat, what were the year’s biggest events, and just what the year, considered as a whole, really meant. As I started doing this for 2024 I was taken aback by just how many things happened. […]
The tax penalty on married women hiding in plain sight
Every spring, millions of American married couples engage in a little-discussed administrative duty: filing joint taxes. Originating in 1948 when married women rarely worked outside the home, this seemingly innocuous tax policy has evolved into one of America’s most overlooked barriers to gender equality. The gender gap in America’s labor market is driven by more […]
Democrats’ problem with working-class voters is bigger than free trade
Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating consequences for the American worker. Barack Obama had a chance to chart a different course, […]
The Republican power grab in North Carolina, explained
Democrats will hold some of North Carolina’s highest offices, including the governorship, come January. But these incoming lawmakers will be less powerful than their predecessors, after the Republican-dominated legislature stripped away several of their duties this week. It isn’t the first time Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature have shifted the balance of power away […]