Kip Sullivan on Why the Bernie Sanders Bill Is Not Single Payer
Jon Gruber’s shabby legacy lives on.
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Should We Tax Wealth?
Kicking the tires of a wealth tax.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...”Maximum Pressure” Campaign Fails To Kill Off Iran’s Oil Exports
Iran and the US look deadlocked.
Read more...One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?
The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.
Read more...Brexit Radicals
Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.
Read more...Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington on How Shareholder Value Theory Rewards the Undeserving
How William Lazonick persuaded pols and pundits that the shareholder value theory was bad for business and society.
Read more...Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration
G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.
Read more...Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages
Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.
Read more...How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy
With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have gotten serious about organizing.
Read more...Taxcast: The Corporate Tax Haven Index, Solving the World’s Broken Tax System
This taxcast examines the Tax Justice Network’s new Corporate Tax Haven Index for what’s wrong with the taxation system and how to fix it.
Read more...Are Cryptocurrencies the First Crack in the Wall to Regulate Facebook?
Like Icarus, the social media monopoly is flying too close to the sun and generating much regulatory heat, which could eventually lead to its downfall.
Read more...A Look at the Poor People’s Campaign: Theology and Ideology
“The poor you will always have with you.” Really?
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