Don’t “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Why the Schumer/Sanders bill on stock buybacks isn’t a very good instrument for improving labor rights and work standards.
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Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...France’s Institutional System Favours Rebellion Against Its Leader
The gilet jaunes movement proves that France’s political and budgetary centralism, the source of citizens’ feelings of abandonment and revolt, must be reformed.
Read more...Will The U.S. Actively Pursue Regime Change In Iran?
The US is still awfully eager to Do Something in Iran.
Read more...Brexit and Labour’s Spat: Everything That’s Wrong with The Independent Group
The departure of seven Labour party members isn’t good for Brexit, the party, or themselves.
Read more...How Energy Efficiency Delivers Green Dividends in Red and Blue States
Promoting and rewarding energy efficiency is popular even in conservative states, and is an important way to get the green ball rolling and have some near-term impact.
Read more...Who Is Really A Socialist?
Identifying some core “socialist” views.
Read more...And Now This Message From Some Very Rich People: ‘Please Raise Our Taxes’
Some wealthy people point out they wouldn’t even notice, much the less mind, the sort of increases in taxes now under discussion.
Read more...Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?
Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?
Read more...If Medicare for All Is Politically Impossible, “All Payer” Could Fix the System
How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
Read more...How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility
Tracing how neoliberalism has corroded social values.
Read more...Believing Six Impossible Things Before Brexit
Everyone around her is so weak that May still is very much in charge of Brexti, and that’t not a good outcome.
Read more...AOC Campaign Finance Primer Goes Viral
Some thoughts on AOC’s campaign finance primer, after video goes viral.
Read more...AOC and Ed Markey Introduce Green New Deal Resolution (and Let’s Remember It’s a DEAL)
The “climate” and “justice” sides of the Green New Deal.
Read more...Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law
Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.
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