When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest US day care companies.
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On an October morning in 2024, security footage captured two hooded figures throwing Molotov cocktails at a refugee accommodation center in Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin. No one was injured in the attack and the damage was minimal. The assailants were later identified as being members of an underground “Active Club, ” in Germany.
Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. The historian and author of The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld, spoke to Jacobin about the complex legacy of an idea that helped forge the modern world.
Canada’s climate plans are a PR front for a carbon-export economy: its oil sands are distorting the economy and derailing any hope for transition. The country’s upcoming election reveals how far leaders are from reversing course.
Our political establishment has given itself a form of brain damage because it’s unable to let go of the Thatcher-Reagan consensus - and we’re now reaping the inevitable rewards, writes Phil McDuff.
At summits and in speeches, African leaders promise to harness AI for development. But without investment in power, connectivity, and people, the continent risks replaying old failures in new code.
Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in financial institutions.
Bowing to the chemical industry lobby, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US.