How to Move Beyond Utopian Socialism and Libertarianism
It is vital to escape the standard binary debates of state versus market or public versus private ownership.
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Michael Olenick: How Biden Could Tackle the Student Loan Crisis
Biden could resort to a simple bankruptcy fix for the student loan mess. But would he?
Read more...The Mnuchin-Powell Affair Over the Fed’s “Special Purpose Vehicles” in Dollars & Effects
The Treasury and Fed set up junk-buying SPV programs The unwind is oddly controversial given that they never should have been created.
Read more...Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
More on lockdowns as a core response to community spread of Covid-19.
Read more...The Impact of the New Asian Trade Mega-Deal on the European Union
Even though the econnomic impact ot the new Asian trade pact seems limited, Europeans see it as a geopolitical Big Deal.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
Read more...Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
Muxh of the initial funding for COVID-19 vaccines originally arose from federally-funded research. Socialize costs, privatize profits.
Read more...The Other America: The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
Where there remains a sleeping giant of poor and low-income people yet to be pulled into political action.
Read more...The War Nerd: Gray Wolves — The Fascists Nobody Wants To Talk About
Examination of the history and practice of the Uurkish Gray Wolves as classic fascists, tolerated due to Turkey’s NATO role.
Read more...Feeling Disoriented By the Election, Pandemic and Everything Else? It’s Called ‘Zozobra’ — And Mexican Philosophers Have Some Advice
Ever had the feeling that you can’t make sense of what’s happening?
Read more...Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...What Did You Miss While You Were Following the US Elections?
Since the US elections weren’t the only recent event of importance, an international news smorgasbord.
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
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