Marcus Baram

Inside the epic debate on rethinking our 50-year-old Outer Space Treaty

This week, the UN begins a conference to start the long-overdue discussion on updating the 1967 Outer Space Treaty for a cosmos that has gotten a lot more complicated.

The Climate Summit’s inconvenient truth: green jobs need to be good jobs

The recent gathering in San Francisco featured a lot of corporate and government backslapping but it skirted the issue of how to bring the labor movement to the climate fight.

Amazon Go is an “existential threat” to millions of jobs, supermarket workers warn

The inside story of how Uber fought New York’s City Hall and won

In this excerpt from Bradley Tusk’s new book, The Fixer, the investor reveals how he helped Uber win over the city’s power elite.

How capitalism and climate change make a perfect storm for hurricane damage

Instead of preparing for inevitable hurricanes, coastal developers keep putting up houses they know will get destroyed–after they’ve made their money.

Trump doesn’t really understand how the U.S. economy is changing, per Woodward’s book

Silicon Valley’s congressman slams Trump’s “disingenuous” claims about social media bias

My father and the betrayal of the American dream

My dad’s blue-collar jobs were his escalator into California’s middle-class. The rising cost of living has put an end to such opportunities.

When will tech worker wages start growing again?

Omarosa claims Betsy DeVos mocked the intellect of black students who booed her

Apple’s decision to pull InfoWars podcasts could really hurt Alex Jones’s bottom line

How Facebook’s crackdown on propaganda also helps the propagandists

Experts say the shutdown has still accomplished the trolls’ goals: to sow chaos and breed mistrust among Americans. “Maybe they wanted to get caught.”

Report: Google plans to launch censored search engine in China in next six to nine months

Nintendo reports 88% hike in profits on strong sales of Switch

How our budding tech utopia is setting the stage for a working-class dystopia

Are longtime San Francisco residents just collateral damage of the tech boom, or is their dispersal a necessary feature of a new economy?

Tronc to New York Daily News: Drop dead!

Is union-busting Tesla the best hope to rebuild the middle class?

The automaker could serve as a factory for middle-class jobs–or has the very nature of manufacturing irrevocably changed since the 1960s, when many first went to work in the industry?

The IRS just made it easier for high-profile Americans to hide their political donations

The agency’s policy shift allows dark money nonprofits to go almost pitch-black.

Putin doesn’t deny he has compromising info on Trump in bizarre press conference