30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
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Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...Another Health Industry Initiative to House the Homeless
Some small-scale initiatives to aid the homeless demonstrate how inadequate our respojnses are.
Read more...The Myth of Shareholder Primacy
A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...Manufacturing Fear and Loathing, Maximizing Corporate Profits! A Review of Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Matt Taibbi’s must-read new book Hate Inc. describes how the media stokes fake conflicts to prevent consideration of real issues.
Read more...America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
Read more...What Randomised Control Trials Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
Read more...Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities?
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...Brexit: Johnson’s General Election Busted Flush?
How the Tories are setting themselves up to lose the upcoming general election.
Read more...California Nursing Home Residents Told To Find New Homes
A nursing home case study in profiteering.
Read more...Phase One of Grenfell Tower Inquiry Released, Towers Not Up to Code, Suggestions for Firefighters
Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...Why the World Will Remember Departing ECB President as the Not-So-‘Super’ Mario Draghi
Looking back at the legacy of the man who created “the most deformed bond market in history.”
Read more...The Sanders Plan to Legalize Marijuana Does More Than Legalize Marijuana
Discussion of comprehensive Sanders plan to legalize marijuana: legal and political implications.
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