Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
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Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance
Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak
The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.
Read more...Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil 75 Years Ago Continue to Seek Justice
The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?
Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.
Read more...Whining Pundits
Quelle surprise! Some pundits are trying to distance themselves from their pre-election calls.
Read more...Trump’s Pennsylvania Lawsuits Invoke Bush v. Gore – But the Supreme Court Probably Won’t Decide the 2020 Election
Trump is trying to put Pennsylvania in play, legally. What are the odds his case will go anywhere?
Read more...Americans Didn’t Vote for Change. For Many, It Wasn’t on the Ballot
Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...Six Charts That Reveal America’s Deep Divides
A brief political economy history, in charts: the rich got richer!
Read more...McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects
McKinsey and some other big consulting names are taking advantage of Covid-overwhelmed state governments.
Read more...Trump or Biden, Trade Deals Still Threaten Britain’s NHS
Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, Britain will be hard pressed to protect the NHS from higher drug prices.
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