Is Conservatism Running on Brand Fumes?
Why the foundations of conservatism are crumbling.
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UBI Without Quality Public Services Is a Neoliberal’s Paradise
Why should governments give cash-handouts before providing free, quality public services to all?
Read more...What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out
Possible American and EU responses to multipolar politics.
Read more...Modi’s Win: It Wasn’t the Economy, Stupid!
Voters accepted that authoritarianism would produce security, which neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
Read more...The 2018 Midterms: U.S. Census Data on the “Coalition of the Ascendant,” Voter Registration, and Voting
There are many barriers to registering and voting, which in toto amount to optimizing the exercise of the ballot for income.
Read more...The “Forever Wars” Enshrined: Visiting Mar-SAYLZ
Those whose names are engraved on the wall in Marseilles died in service to their country. Of that there is no doubt. Whether they died to advance the cause of freedom or even the wellbeing of the United States is another matter entirely.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange’s Espionage Charges
The US has added new charges againat Julian Assange that represent a threat to journalists.
Read more...How Trump’s ‘America First’ Trade Strategy Is Accelerating America’s Decline
Why Trump ‘s narrowly nationalistic trade agenda, combined with his nostalgia for a 1950s style economy, will undermine U.S. economic prosperity and U.S. global hegemony.
Read more...Is Theresa May Finally Over?
Is the bell finally tolling for Theresa May?
Read more...FAA Won’t Say When Boeing 737 Max Might Fly Again; Foreign Regulators Uppity
The FAA is a big casualty of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Read more...Documenting the Train Wreck: Atmospheric CO2 Is Now Higher Than Ever in Human History, and Rising
CO2 levels have crossed a threshold that ought to be causing alarms, yet the finding was just another news story. What can be done to cut through the climage complacency?
Read more...Bankruptcy: An Option for Taxi Drivers Crushed by Medallion Loans?
Contrary to what the NYT asserts, taxi drivers who can get competent legal advice might find bankruptcy allows them to escape onerous medallion loan burdens – and keep their medallions.
Read more...Trump’s Sneak Attack on Social Security
Trump budget proposal incorporates an attack on Social Security, advocating a switch to the chained Consumer Price Index (CPI) to index the federal definition of poverty, a step that would result in lower benefits.
Read more...Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails
After the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains.
Read more...EPA Changes Math to Allow Burning of More Coal
EPA proposes methodology change to allow states to opt to burn more coal.
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