Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long project.
www.occrp.org/en/news/amne...
The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Join me next Wednesday 11/19 when I speak at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It won the Baifang Schell Book Prize from the Asia Society and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize. Ticket info: www.eventbrite.com/e/moca-talks...
My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
In tomorrow's World I’ll be writing about slop. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one! But soon everyone will know. Here's my convo with @kevinroose.com, tech columnist, podcast co-host and...robot lover: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
IRS official Holly Paz was in charge of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters. Here's what happened next: nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨
We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September
The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate
More info below 👇
www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳
Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:
In which Sarah Palin goes hunting for a defamation case that she can use to shoehorn herself back into the national conversation. MURDER THE TRUTH excerpt in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
My oped today. Trump's tariffs are about wrapping a harmful fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism. Don't fall for it.
What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...
‘Surrounded by his students as he sat at the piano, Messiaen would speak as much about “the dances of planets and atoms”, and the poetry of Breton and Éluard, as he did about music.’
Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments
New report from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social today on tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships! equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... (as featured in @politico.com's Morning Tax!)
While not the biggest (or most troubling) news of the day, I say this deserves a thread!
They've taken down CDC HIV Awareness Day pages, the HIV Testing page. It appears they've taken down all the HIV pages except for this About HIV page. www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/in...
60 years ago today, John Coltrane released “A Love Supreme” (Impulse!). Spiritualized. Read the Feelies and John Davis (Superdrag, Lees Of Memory) in MAGNET on one of the greatest albums ever made:
magnetmagazine.com/2017/03/28/f...
magnetmagazine.com/2009/02/03/j...
The tech bros want us to think they are all powerful. But cozying up to Trump reveals their weakness.
They are facing massive regulatory fines across the globe and the astronomical costs of the race for AI dominance. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...
If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more.
thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...
