Author: Justin Lane

Last year, the Supreme Court, eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at the direction of GOP poster-boy Justice, John Roberts. The court voted to remove protections that had previously required states that had shown a precedence for discriminatory voting practices to be reviewed and have any changes to their voting registration and voting methods approved by federal oversight. Since the Court struck down those provisions, GOP states have been crawling all over themselves to enact laws that would have otherwise been prevented under the act. According to a report from Mother Jones, 15 states have, since the destruction...

We’ve all heard of the one percent. We know them. They are the the affluent and entitled and they have more money than you or I will ever have. The group you may not have heard of is the one percent of the one percent. This group has been solidifying its wealth in the United States, steadily, and now holds an egregious amount of American capital. The growth though, according to new research from Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, has been disproportionately going to the already-wealthy. In fact, while the top one percent and one-thousandth percent groups are the...

In the U.S., we continue to squabble over whether Net Neutrality and increasing web speeds are the direction we want our internet to go. The alternative is, of course, that the existing infrastructure and laws are sufficient or even too forceful. Those are, of course, lies perpetuated by the established industry to protect their monopolies and encourage a more homogenized internet. In Europe, they’re pushing right past the misconceptions and doing exactly what we can’t seem to get done in the United States: voting to pass strong Net Neutrality laws. European Parliament voted for a new law that does...

Charles Koch could be considered a bajillionaire mogul and political schemer. Through their political group Americans for Prosperity, Charles and his brother David have exhausted millions of dollars and incalculable hours fighting the care and wellbeing of common Americans. Instead, the Kochs want to see a society in which individuals have no obligation or responsibility to one another. Now, Charles has come forward to ask that the rest of us show a little sympathy and play nicer. Tough luck. In his recent, what I guess you would call letter, in the Wall Street Journal, Koch argues that modern political...

In today’s high-speed economy, hundreds of trades take place every second, profits and losses are calculated on infinitesimally small margins, and advantages that completely change the dynamics of trading can come down to something as simple as the speed of your internet connection. In the book “Flash Boys”, Michael Lewis argues that today’s stock market is rigged to benefit only those institutions that have invested billions to exploit a weakness in computerized trading. “The modern stock market is must protect investors interests,” commented Peter Mougey, a partner with the Levin, Papantonio law firm and director of the firm’s business...