Category Archives: Banana republic

Clinton Loyalist Authoritarianism: Brad DeLong Threatens a Journalist and Economists. Who is Next?

Brad DeLong’s self-assigned role as Team Clinton enforcer reflects poorly on him and the Clinton campaign.

Tom Engelhardt: How Donald Trump Reveals the March of American Authoritarianism

Trump as a symbol of an America morphing into a visibly less democratic fading empire.

Gaius Publius: Comparing Debate Styles — Trump, Clinton, Sanders

Why a Trump-Clinton matchup is a Clinton train-wreck in the making, and why Sanders would do well against Trump.

Gauis Publius: Three Data Points Regarding Clinton’s Email Server and the Law

Clearing up some of the confusion about the Clinton’s exposure in her e-mail server investigations.

Hoisted From Comments: Neoliberalism Tearing Societies Apart

The true destructiveness of neoliberalism is becoming more and more apparent.

Hoisted from E-Mail: “New York Times Article Promotes Price-Fixing in the Drug Market”

A well-argued reader rant on an article arguing that drug makers need higher prices to preserve their profits.

Gaius Publius: Bernstein – The White House Is Terrified the Clinton Campaign “Is in Freefall”

The Clinton decay path is accelerating.

Andrew Bacevich: The US in the Middle East – “There Is No Strategy”

At best, the US is waging a war of attrition in the Middle East. And we ignore the fact that people in that part of the world hold grudges for centuries.

CalPERS Uses Unqualified “Expert” to Validate Its London-Whale-Style Deficient Risk Management

CalPERS tells its board that the very same lax risk management oversight structure that led to the London Whale fiasco is “best practice” when it clearly isn’t.

Tuition-Free or Debt-Free College: Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders Put Band-Aids on the Cancer

A comparison of the Clinton and Sanders campaign platforms on student loans [sic].

Is America Committing Slow-Motion Suicide? A Look at the Decline of CUNY

The decline of CUNY as evidence that the superrich are killing the rest of us through a slow process of attrition

MH17 Coroner Michael Barnes, Australian Lawyers in Head-On Crash With the Rules of Evidence

A MH17 case in Australia violates ECHR rules and has a New South Wales coroner suppressing evidence and Sky News doctoring stories post publication.

More Backlash from London’s Empty Towers

London exemplifies a global trend: property warehoused by the global wealthy, to the detriment of the people who live there.

Gaius Publius: “Networks are Colluding” to Declare Clinton the Overall Winner Before California Polls Close

The smell of corruption, Clinton-style.