Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Note: “White-collar core” includes finance, insurance, information, and professional and business services; Chart: Axios VisualsUsually, when the economy grows, so does employment in the kinds of office jobs that form the backbone of modern corporate life. It hasn’t been true lately…Continue Reading

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Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko—who spearheaded last summer’s crackdown on anti-corruption agencies in the name of fighting “Russian influence”—has direct family ties to Russia himself, as do three of his five deputies, an investigation by the Mezha Anti-Corruption Center found. The investigation shows the “Russian trace” ran through his ownContinue Reading

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Janet Mills, the 78-year-old moderate who has served as Maine’s governor since 2019, is staid and a little boring—which is exactly why, last fall, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pushed her to run against progressive upstart Graham Platner in the state’s Senate primary. Mills was reasonably popular and polled wellContinue Reading

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The UK’s High Court has ruled that the government ban on Palestine Action was unlawful., UK ban on Palestine Action was unlawful, says court NewsFeed The UK’s High Court has ruled that the government ban on the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terror group’ was unlawful. The caseContinue Reading