Los Angeles Teachers Make the Case That Charter Schools Are an Existential Threat to Public Education
Charter schools undermine public schools, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
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Are Federal Workers Being Forced Into Involuntary Servitude?
A useful, if disheartening, discussion of the limited legal grounds workers have for successfully pursuing “coercion” cases.
Read more...Gilets Jaunes Under Attack
The gilets jaunes have arisen out of the profound inequality that is fracturing societies across Europe. It is against that inequality that leaders must take a strong stance.
Read more...Fears of US-Backed ‘Coup’ in Motion as Trump Recognizes Venezuela Opposition Lawmaker as ‘Interim President’
Venezuela becomes the latest target for regime change fun and profit.
Read more...Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...MMT’s Opening
Another go at clearing up press and pundit misrepresentations of MMT.
Read more...Medicare For All — The Democratic Party Audition for 2020
The debate over Medicare for All is forcing Team Dem to show its true colors.
Read more...IEA Chief: EVs Are Not The End Of The Oil Era
Why EVs are way overhyped as a way to reduce oil use.
Read more...Brexit’s Primitive Passions Could Bring Havoc to Ireland – and Far Beyond
Brexit is revealing the bad side of some Brits.
Read more...Bill Black: AOC# and MMT Spook the AEI
Right wingers go on tilt as AOC talks up MMT.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Politics
Why AOC’s Select Committee for a Green Deal Deal would be an electoral winner.
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8 Percent of Americans Recently Changed Their Minds on Climate. What Gives?
If you’re trying to get someone to open their mind, you might consider the idea of a having tough, nuanced conversation … and actually hearing them out.
Read more...3 Ways Trump Could Disrupt Health Care for the Better
Even fairly modest changes in health care come off as disruptive relative to what many experts are willing to endorse.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Bottom Suddenly Falls Out of Demand in China in Many Sectors
Suddenly weakening demand in China has now transcended company-specific issues.
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