The Scary Truth Is Many Senate Dems Share the Same Corporate Agenda as Amy Coney Barrett
Why the half-hearted Democratic Party opposition to Amy Coney Barrett should come as no surprise.
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How Donald Trump Is Putting American Workers at Risk
A partial catalogue of how Trump has left worers high and dry.
Read more...Don’t Look Down! Estimating the Depth of State Covid Budget Holes
The not-pretty picture of Covid impact on state and local governments.
Read more...Ending Regime Change – in Bolivia and the World
How democracy triumphed in Bolivia…despite the best efforts of the US.
Read more...Revisiting the Rise of Italian Fascism
The example of Mussolini suggests that fear of socialist policies played a big role in the rise of fascism.
Read more...Residential Evictions Bearing Down on Many Tenants
Winter is coming, and unless something major changes, with it, evictions.
Read more...A (Very) Short History of the Idea of Ending Poverty
As material output increased, so to has the interest in treating poverty as a potentially solvable problem.
Read more...Covid Spikes in Europe, US Before Winter Is Here
Covid is clearly not going away any time soon. The fact that things are looking bad this early does not bode well for the winter.
Read more...UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity
Property liens are the hidden icebergs of patient medical debt, legal experts say, lying unseen, often for decades, before they surface to claim hard-won family savings or inheritance proceeds.
Read more...AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts
Progressives pen letter to Biden asking him not to staff his administration with the usual corporate suspects; fat chance!
Read more...Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview
The record of pandemics past shows that only devastating mortality rates reduce inequality.
Read more...Why the George Floyd Protests Succeeded Where Others Failed
Looking at what the George Floyd and later Black Lives Matter protests over the summer did right.
Read more...Corporate Law Consequences: Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
Quick take on what the Amy Coney Barrett appointment means for various areas of corporate law and why Republicans are so keen to confirm her.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
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