Monticello and Mount Vernon flourished only because of the coerced labor of people who had been forcibly recast as Jupiter, Caesar, Hercules and Cupid.

NOBLE VIRTUES, BAD HISTORY: HOW GREECE AND ROME INFLUENCED AMERICA’S FOUNDERSCHARLES KINGNOVEMBER 6, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit over Proposition 22 that alleges the company is illegally coercing its drivers to support the ballot measure that seeks to keep workers classified as independent contractors.

UBER DRIVERS SUE COMPANY ALLEGING COERCIVE PROP 22 ADVERTISINGMEGAN ROSE DICKEYOCTOBER 22, 2020TECHCRUNCH

During the call, she claimed that she was coerced into pleading guilty to two other drunken driving charges after being released from a hospital and that her discipline case in 2013 had no merit.

MAINE HIRES LAWYERS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS TO DEFEND ITS POOREST RESIDENTSBY SAMANTHA HOGAN, THE MAINE MONITOR, WITH DATA ANALYSIS BY AGNEL PHILIPOCTOBER 6, 2020PROPUBLICA

By high school his coaches encouraged him to stop playing soccer altogether, then his teammates coerced him to take training seriously.

INSIDE A SECRET RUNNING PROGRAM AT NIKE AND A WIN-AT-ALL-COSTS CORPORATE CULTURERACHEL KINGOCTOBER 6, 2020FORTUNE

Among the sexual misconduct charges was one in which an officer allegedly used his badge and gun to coerce a woman into having sex.

HOW CRIMINAL COPS OFTEN AVOID JAILBY ANDREW FORD, ASBURY PARK PRESSSEPTEMBER 23, 2020PROPUBLICA

Because buyers are far more likely to buy items that are Prime eligible, Amazon can coerce businesses into paying Amazon to handle their warehousing, even if it would be cheaper and faster to use alternative methods.

WHY ARE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PAYING AMAZON TO DESTROY MAIN STREET?JAKEMETHAUGUST 23, 2020FORTUNE

Long before AI or “big data” became buzzwords, the Party’s intent was to co-opt—not simply coerce—society to participate in its own control.

HOW CHINA SURVEILS THE WORLDTATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

A meeting of the canons who had fled from Lige, and their brethren who had been coerced into voting, was held at Namur.

BELGIUMGEORGE W. T. (GEORGE WILLIAM THOMSON) OMOND

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

JUNE 17, 2021

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