Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
Read more...Taxpayer money subsidizes the looting of the Walton family. Why should one family reap billions while its workers can barely survive?
Read more...The COVID-19 crisis may worsen inequality and push more than 70 million people into extreme poverty, according to the United Nations.
Read more...The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Unions look better than they used to, due to the worsening of non-union work.
Read more...Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.
Read more...Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...A brief political economy history, in charts: the rich got richer!
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