America’s system of checks and balances

is supposed to work by each branch of the government contesting for power with the others. That is not remotely how the government works today. Instead, the judiciary exercises dominion over the other two branches. —Ryan Cooper on the out-of-control

—Luke Kasper, sheet metal worker Lee Harris writes about TSMC’s $40 billion semiconductor facility being constructed in Phoenix.

The ruling was no surprise. It is part of a decades-long campaign from the right not just to resegregate higher education, but to end race-based initiatives in other aspects of American life, including employment diversity programs, corporate board diversity quotas, and government contracting requirements.

Miles Mogulescu on the SCOTUS affirmative action rollback

Will this kind of business and consumer pressure make any difference? The closest analogy is North Carolina’s now-repealed bathroom law. A tally by the Associated Press in 2017, a year after the “Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act” was enacted, calculated that the direct cost to the state’s economy was $3.76 billion and growing.

Robert Kuttner on the DeSantis culture war

So sizable were these gains among low-wage workers that they were the only group of workers over the past two years who have seen wage increases that outpaced the rise in inflation.—Harold Meyerson on Bidenomics and the Great American Quit

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