The Rise of Private Cops: How Not to Tackle Homelessness
Why a story on the abuse of private power, here a security guard beating up the homeless on public property, does not go far enough.
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Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.
Read more...How to Fix Monetary Policy in Advanced Countries
The monetary policy of major central banks in advanced economies have had negative consequences and thus need to be fixed.
Read more...Are Corporate Executives Expendable?
Analysts across the political spectrum challenge massive paychecks of corporate chiefs—and whether companies can survive without them.
Read more...Vacation for Me, Not for Thee: European Workers’ Hard-Won Summer Vacation Tradition Is Slowly Being Taken Away
An increasing number of workers are unable to afford a summer holiday.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber
Hubert Horan takes another hard look at Uber financials and finds much not to like.
Read more...Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated
Angus Deaton returns to his deaths of despair theme, with updated data and a pointed critique of the role of Chicago School libertarians.
Read more...The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?
What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.
Read more...What Can Social Movements Learn From Gramsci in Today’s Uncertain Times?
Gramsci encourages movements to pursue wide-ranging interventions, but always to unite them as part of a common program to transform society.
Read more...Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks
A supposedly good economy has not helped Biden much and trends such as oil prices do not look to be in his favor.
Read more...The Nationalist Right Tries a New Formula to Sell the European Neoliberal Project
In Italy and elsewhere, the right combines anti-immigrant and chauvinist measures with neoliberal policy.
Read more...‘Renters Are Struggling’: Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control
Economists begin to admit that their models are wrong when it comes to anti-rent control arguments.
Read more...More on the Collapse of Operational Capabilities in the West: How Did We Get Here
Some thoughts on the rapid decline in operational capabilities, or why tons of people, particularly those in charge, are no good at their jobs
Read more...Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle
Rob Urie makes a reasoned, data-backed case that the tools used in supposed democracies to enforce class standing merit the label of fascism
Read more...Delivery Workers File Wage Theft Complaints Against DoorDash
DoorDash behaves badly via selective non-compliance with a new law setting pay rules for food delivery workers.
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