The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...Category Archives: Guest Post
Brexit: Blame It on the Banking Crisis
The parts of the UK hit hard by post-crisis austerity had a strong tendency to vote for Brexit.
Read more...How Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter School Agenda
Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools.
Read more...France’s Great Debate
One in two French citizens wants to participate in Macron’s Great Debate across France. High stakes for Macron and French democracy.
Read more...Ray Dalio: Capitalism Isn’t Working
A squillionaire critique of capitalism. Funny how they decry inequality but won’t give all their money away to help remedy that.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Shutdown trade negotiations, Sanders, Gillibrand, Wasserman Schultz, RussiaRussiaRussia, Prohibition Era idpol, manufacturing, jobless claims, Lego as an asset class, Instagram, Facebook, Glossier, Digital First Media, hoarding disorder, drones, hidden cameras
Read more...GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding
GoFundMe campaigns as proof of America’s health care crisis.
Read more...Repeating the Mistakes of 1914?
n their enthusiasm for a new cold war against China and Russia, the western establishments of today are making a mistake comparable to that of their forebearers in 1914.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Gillibrand, AOC on Finance Commitee, Brennan Russia walkback?, organizing Philly, housing, mortages, lithium scandal, Blue Apron, WeWork and Softbank, Elsevier, law enforcement for profit, LA teachers strike, “toxic masculinity”
Read more...Michael Olenick: Helicidine – French Miracle Snails
Snails to the rescue!
Read more...What Truck Drivers Say about “Driver Shortage” & Pay Increases
Debunking another “worker shortage” story.
Read more...The Shutdown Will Harm the Health and Safety of Americans, Even After It’s Long Over
Another set of shutdown costs.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/15/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA won’t fund the wall, China trade negotiations, Wendy’s at the White House, Russian meddling, Bernie Bros, Obama’s presidency, manufacturing, purchasing prices, robot cars, online gambling, Apple, Bird, Blue Apron, Uber, Antarctic ice, Frederick Douglass
Read more...Do Not Disturb: The Right to Disconnect
New York’s City Council has scheduled a hearing Thursday to debate a measure to enshrine a right to disconnect – which would bar firms from requiring workers to check e-mail or other electronic communications outside the normal workday unless their contracts specify otherwise.
Read more...Bill Black: Trump CFPB Plans Obscene Change to Payday Lender Rule
The Trump Administration is out to weaken payday lender regulations so as to allow the industry to put borrowers on a debt treadmill that leads almost inevitably to bankruptcy.
Read more...