Trump admin abandons cases against big law firms that resisted its exec orders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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Trump admin abandons cases against big law firms that resisted its exec orders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Dan Ariely, the best-selling behavioral scientist, reached out to Jeffrey Epstein in hopes of advancing his research. Then the relationship evolved www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...
Some news: Workers at a Patagonia in NYC file for a union election. They're organizing with RWDSU, which kicked off the union campaign at REI a few years ago.
In 2022, a group of SpaceX employees wrote an open letter asking the co to distance itself from Elon Musk's online behavior. They were fired and the NLRB opened an investigation.
Then Musk funded Trump's election win. Now, the Trump NLRB has dismissed the case.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
The country's top labor regulator has dismissed a case against SpaceX for firing 8 workers who criticized Elon Musk. Regulators “seem to have lost their independence and mission to protect workers rights," said the Biden prosecutor who brought the case www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
Apropos of today's big layoff announcement at Amazon, I have a piece about why tech workers at Amazon and other big companies continue to challenge their employers even as the companies aggressively cut jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Great review today of Jason Zengerle's essential new book on Tucker Carlson www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
Seems like a consequential appointment by Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/n...
The firm said that “All decisions regarding the work force reduction were driven by business considerations that started long before the unionization effort.”
"Now it’s up to me to design some prophylaxis against any such future efforts.” An email from a manager at Snohetta, a prominent architecture firm accused by the NLRB of laying off 8 employees in retaliation for trying to unionize www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...
The firm said that “All decisions regarding the work force reduction were driven by business considerations that started long before the unionization effort.”
In a discussion of the union campaign not long before the layoffs, a senior manager wrote in an email: “Now it’s up to me to design some prophylaxis against any such future efforts.”
Some news: One of the country's highest-profile architecture firms, Snohetta, has been accused by the NLRB of ousting eight workers in retaliation for union organizing. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...
One thing that would improve a lot of people's quality of life: an all-you-can-eat option for Substack. Or even a micro-payment option where you can just pay by the article. At any given time there are probably 15-20 Substacks I want to read, but I'm not going to pay for 15-20 subscriptions.
Behold, the new RFK stadium complex. I have fond memories of going to the old RFK in the early 2000s. This version gives off some Empire Strikes Back vibes but still look forward to seeing it in person www.commanders.com/news/washing...
Even if Trump persuades American oil companies to invest tens of billions in Venezuela, it's not clear how much that will help long-term. Venezuela and the oil companies tried that approach in the 1990s and it gave them ... Hugo Chavez www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/b...
You often hear that Americans don't want to do back-breaking jobs like roofing. Ronda Kaysen and Rob Gebeloff have a great piece explaining how the jobs actually became lousy and low-paying first, *then* Americans no longer wanted to do them. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Since 2022, tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands of people and many tech execs have embraced the ruthless management style of Elon Musk. Yet tech workers keep picking fights with their bosses, including a recent strike at Kickstarter. Here's why www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
I asked my publisher’s R&D dept to come up with alternative uses for my forthcoming book, and this was their best idea
A key development is that many in the tech industry now see themselves as regular workers, not co-owners or sought-after professionals or future executives and founders.
Over the past few years, tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands while many tech executives have embraced the ruthless management style of CEOs like Elon Musk. Yet tech workers keep standing up to their bosses. What gives? I try to explain here www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Very interesting piece from @timothynoah.bsky.social on why so many House Republicans voted to restore federal workers' bargaining rights. Worth keeping an eye on how it plays out in the Senate newrepublic.com/article/2045...
"Blue Owl primarily funded the project through a bond offering from Pimco, an asset management firm. Pimco sold the so-called 'Beignet bonds,' which mature in 2049, to its clients that include insurers, pension funds, endowments, financial advisers, BlackRock."
"Meta built the data center, but Blue Owl was on the hook for 80% of the financing. Meta agreed to 'rent' the data center from Beignet with a series of 4-year leases, allowing it to categorize the funding as operating cost, not debt." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...
Starbucks settles with NYC over violations of the city's fair scheduling law. Presumably the deal wasn't going to get better for Sbux under the administration of Zohran Mamdani, who has joined striking Starbucks union members on their picket lines www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
An alarming new data point in the return-to-office debate: Remote work seems to be raising unemployment for recent college grads www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...
Interesting story from David Streitfeld about a writer whose critique of Silicon Valley came a few decades too early but is now landing www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Great conversation today on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, Aki Ito and Alisia Gill about what's going on with white-collar layoffs www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
So Chip-maker A has turned a relatively small amount of its own money into a relatively large amount of demand for its own chips.
One example: Chip-maker A invests money in Chip-buyer B. Chip-buyer B levers up on that money, and uses the borrowed money to buy chips from Chip-maker A.