Design Genius Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Leaving Behind Crapified Products That Cannot Be Repaired
The departure of Jony Ive gives Apple the chance to reboot its design philosophy to embrace reliability and repairability.
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Taxcast: The Corporate Tax Haven Index, Solving the World’s Broken Tax System
This taxcast examines the Tax Justice Network’s new Corporate Tax Haven Index for what’s wrong with the taxation system and how to fix it.
Read more...Robert Reich: Here’s Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.
Read more...The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline
Quelle surprise! Occupational decline, aka “The robots ate my career,” lowers lifetime earnings, particulalry for low-wage workers.
Read more...Book Review: Stephanie Jones-Rogers’ “They Were Her Property”
This important scholarly work paints a vivid portrait of 19th century America’s most significant and devastating system of economic exchange.
Read more...Trade Wars in the Global Value Chain Era
Why trade wars are more costly than conventional wisdom would have you believe now that manufacturing to a large degree depends on global value chains.
Read more...Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis
There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.
Read more...These Statistics Show Why the Status Quo Is Failing Most Americans
Ugly but important statistics on America’s fraying social fabric.
Read more...Whether It’s the New NAFTA or the Old NAFTA, It Serves the 1 Percent
By Leo W. Gerard, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Produced by the Independent Media Institute Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor. Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, […]
Read more...America’s Suicide Epidemic
While the press increasingly covers America’s suicide crisis, Trump has pointedly ignored it even though it afflicts a large chunk of his base. Maybe that ‘s because he’d have to abandon policies that have made matters worse for undereducated rural whites.
Read more...Still No Minimum Wage Bill – Not Because Of Trump Or McTurtle – Because Of Pelosi And Hoyer And Their Blue Dogs
Minimum wage increases….another nice thing the Democrats don’t really stand for.
Read more...Economic Growth: A Short History of a Controversial Idea
Environmentalists and even some economists question the relentless pursuit of GDP growth. But where did the idea come from?
Read more...Book Review: Chris Arnade’s “Dignity”
Chris Arnade’s 150,000-mile, multi-year photograhic journey through unthriving America—urban and rural, black and white, from Lewiston, Maine, to Bakersfield, California, with many stops in between.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
Plus ça change….
Read more...Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidates—Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way
Charter schools are finally becoming a battleground.
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