It’s Time to Expand the COVID-19 Exception to All American Health Care
The Feds throwing money at some parts of Covid care is arguably a precedent to build on. But the US is not exceptional that way.
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How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
How highly unequal asset ownership diminishes social mobility and institutionalizes modern-era feudalism.
Read more...Rorschach Test: Revealing Western Press Reactions to Xi Jinping Speech at Davos
Xi Jinping gave an important speech at Davos, even if it was mainly updates on favorite themes. But the press reactions…..
Read more...5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests
The Covid free test program isn’t really.
Read more...Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Studies of beasts that pass on wealth, um, resources and advantages to offspring may inform whether humans create stratified conditions.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Business Even Scummier than Many Imagined
Even more ugly details about Google misbehavior in the online ad market.
Read more...The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics
Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.
Read more...Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It
The Fed is trying to solve an economic problem that is largely outside its reach.
Read more...Our Ancestors Worked Less and Had Better Lives. What Are We Doing Wrong?
In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work
Read more...Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
David Graeber and David Wengrow contend early humanity featured experiments in living that have much to teach us.
Read more...Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
Why it is a little too pat to blame the right for the sorry state of democratic processes in the US.
Read more...Most People Want an Active Government, Working on Their Side. It Is Time Those Seeking Power Took Note.
The UK government, like its US counterpart, is not held in much respect. Does this create an opportunity?
Read more...During a COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices and Impossible Ethical Decisions for Hospital Staff
Hospital staff are bracing themselves for overload….if they aren’t there already.
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