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Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want
Even if you beleve that taxes fund federal spending, a new study shows it is not necessary to raise taxes to pay for Medicare for All.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?
Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
Read more...Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas
Libra is going nowhere fast.
Read more...A Bitter(Sweet) Pill: The Impacts of Private Provision of Medicaid
A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren’t justified?
Read more...Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout
How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Trade Deals. What Does That Mean?
Is what Democratic candidates mean by “green trade deals” what environmentalists and trade experts mean?
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #6 in Westerville, Ohio
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★Twelve candidates on one stage!★★★ Come on down!
Read more...How to Know Which Impeachment Polls to Believe – and Which to Skip
Since impeachment looks likely to stay front and center of the news, how to make sense of polls.
Read more...California’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices
Drug price data in Califorinia shows mind-boggling increases in wholesale prices since 2019. Of course, the industry claims that that information is misleading.
Read more...The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet
A brief reminder of the IMF record of failure and harm.
Read more...What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Coups?
Will the “impeachment inquiry” culminate in a coup, or not?
Read more...Thomas Piketty’s New Book: Impressive Research, Problematic Solutions
Capital and Ideology is a quantitative history of inequality, a largely noneconomic theory of social stratification, an investigation into the social roots of current populism, and a political manifesto for the European left.
Read more...Brexit: The Ticking Clock
It looks as if Johnson has no way to escape asking for a Brexit extension. Or does he?
Read more...Computer Science Now Counts as Math Credit in Most States – Is This a Good Idea?
Tech squillionaires are the moving force behind a succesful campaign to have secondary schools in the US give math credits for computer science courses.
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