Resisting the Gig Economy: The Emergence of Cooperative Food Delivery Platforms
Labor-squeezing platform providers: how to fight fire with fire.
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Mr. Market Has a Hissy Fit Over Trump’s “Coming Soon” China Tariffs
How much of the upset over Trump’s planned China tariffs is warranted?
Read more...Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
Chomsky discusses a wide range of hot topics.
Read more...Hidden History of How US Corporations Gained Legal Personhood and Civil Rights
Interview with Adam Winkler about his book, We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. The consequences of this victory skew US politics to benefit corporations at the expense of the public good.
Read more...NYC’s Fauxgressive Mayor De Blasio Turning into a Charter School Cheerleader
De Blasio again shows that he does not live up to his progressive branding.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Last Speech: Have We Left the Haunted House?
King described the problem of structural racism in his final speech and how the US commitment to Vietnam was hurting blacks disproportionately. What if anything has changed?
Read more...Hiding from the Tax Man, International Wealthy Style
Tax avoidance is an ever-evolving game. Some fresh information on which countries are willing to offer a helping hand to the rich.
Read more...A Battered Doctor, A Slain Patient And A Family’s Quest For Answers
A case study in how a patient was a threat to a doctor….and how the reverse has too often become true.
Read more...Silicon Valley’s Gilded Cage
Silicon Valley glitters but at least some of its workers want more.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Racial Dimension of Student Debt
Why student debt hits blacks particularly hard.
Read more...A History of the European Core and Its Periphery: How an Optimal Currency Area Forms
This column documents the formation and evolution of a core and periphery in EMU, unearthing an increasingly integrated core, an entrenched periphery, and a third set of countries marked by in-and-out movements
Read more...Seeking Reader Sightings on the State of Flyover
Can readers tell us what they see over time from parts of the US off paths well trodden by MSM reporters?
Read more...Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
Read more...How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
Read more...Notes on the West Virginia Teachers Strike of 2018
How this strike began, the current state of play, health care as a demand, solidarity, and the role of the Democrats
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