Brexit: According to Script
The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting
Why neither the government nor the press have covered themselves in glory in ‘splaining the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
Read more...How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat
New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.
Read more...Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
The two Bretton Woods institutions the have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.
Read more...Brexit Breakup
More consternation about Johnson’s possible Brexit moves.
Read more...Austerity Has Made People Less Prepared for a No Deal Brexit
The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.
Read more...CalPERS Staff Caught Out in Yet Another Power Grab, Tries Gagging the Board With Staff’s “Board Code of Conduct”
The CalPERS board continues to waste time on tinpot tyranny rather than focusing on the challenge of the penion system’s substantial underfunding.
Read more...5 Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Embargo Won’t End the Maduro Regime
Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Australia Debates: Communist Party China the New Nazi Germany?
A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.
Read more...Mark Blyth’s Incisive Post-Crisis Takedown: “A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why”
Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
Read more...Money Is Still King of the Hill And We Are All the Poorer for It: A Glance Back, and Forward
A personal retrospective on money in US politics.
Read more...The Trump White House Is Upending Decades of Policy-Making Procedures
The Trump Administration really is making things up as it goes along.
Read more...Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal
Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.
Read more...Trump Pretends to Like Union Members—But He Really Likes the Fat Cats
An update on what Trump has, or more accurately, has not, done for workers.
Read more...Private Equity: The Perps Behind Destructive Hospital Surprise Billing
How private equity ginned up yet another abuse.
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