Brexit: Posturing and Impasse
More Brexit chest-thumping.
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Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again
A short history of the fight to make workplaces less dangerous to your health.
Read more...Department of Justice, State AGs to Target Google for Antitrust Violations, WSJ Reports
WSJ reports the DOJ and various state attorneys general will soon file antitrust lawsuits against Google, but is short on legal details.
Read more...Why We Need the Human Touch in Contact Tracing for Coronavirus
Contact tracing with the human touch works better than the highly-touted app panaceas du jour – and without raising the same civil liberties concerns.
Read more...The Lockdown Protestors Are Not Working Class
Contesting the messaging about lockdown protests.
Read more...How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
Without an agreed set of rules, the eurozone cannot be sustained. Ironically, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from its court’s ruling.
Read more...Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
Neglecting facilities that serve Medicaid patients in the Covid-19 rescues puts health infrastructure for the poor at risk of collapse.
Read more...U.S. COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs Designed for Failure, Despite Bloomberg Money; Why Can’t the U.S. Copy the Lessons of Hong Kong’s Success?
The US has turned to contact tracing as the latest panacea for slowing the spread of COVID-19. Major flaws in the design of these programs will limit their success.
Read more...Brexit: Yet More Chicken
The same bad Brexit dynamics are very much in place.
Read more...The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
The inescapable dilemma facing social democracy
Read more...Trump CFPB Appointees Use COVID-19 Crisis as Rationale to Weaken Consumer Protection
Trump appointees use the COVID-19 crisis to rollback consumer protections against financial predation put in place by the CFPB.
Read more...Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in ‘Stealth Bailout’: Report
$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead being funnelled to fossil fuel executives.
Read more...Because Culture Matters, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdowns
Quelle surprise! Local norms play a meaningful role in Covid-19 transmission, which has implications for how to end lockdowns.
Read more...America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
The US is willing to practice human sacrifice, rather than explore a way of defining wealth outlined by 19th-century thinker John Ruskin.
Read more...Reopening Isn’t Reopening—It’s Cutting Off Unemployment
In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
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