Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

The Major League Baseball Players Association is joining the AFL-CIO.

In his book, Russell writes, "One rapidly emerging picture is that of an economy where far fewer people work because work is unnecessary." More robots means more inequalityAlmost everyone who has thought seriously about this has said that more automation is likely to lead to more inequality. In this way, robots would be taking jobs that humans might not want unless they had to do them, which they currently do. "The scare tactics are a little extreme," she said in an interview, arguing that reports of tens of millions of American jobs lost by 2030 are probably overstated. In other words: We will have to figure out how to be happy with the robots and the automation, because they are coming.