Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/7/2020
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Read more...Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
Read more...Links 10/7/2020
Chamber of Commerce Quietly Supports a United Government Led by Democrats
The Chamber of Commerce cozying up to Team Dem is quite a bellweather.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/6/2020
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Read more...Covid-19 and the Global Addiction to Cheap Migrant Labor
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labor.
Read more...Right to Repair Redux: Massachusetts Ballot Questions
Massachusetts has another right to repair ballot question, updating its 2012 provision that resulted in landmark 2013 legislation.
Read more...Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
How Jim Crow laws were a backlash against 19th Century populism of having poor whites and blacks join forces to seek economic justice.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
Daniel Ellsberg, in an interview with Paul Jay, describes the threat the Assange show trial poses for journalists around the world.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/5/2020
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Read more...Pandemics and Inequality
Pandemics have a long tail, including their impact on inequality.
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Michael Olenick: The Surprisingly Short Road from Abolitionism to Credit Bureaus
Abolitionist Lewis Tappan, the inventor of credit bureaus, would be distressed to see how his creation is being put to use.
Read more...Macro N Cheese – Debt Deflation and the Neofeudal Empire with Michael Hudson
Another tour de force by Michael Hudson, this one stressing the role of unproductive real estate in modern debt bondage and Trump’s MMT.
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