The “Illegals” and Our Professional Classes
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Gaius Publius: How to Block the Trump Nomination: Shut Down the Senate
Will the Democrats have the guts to use Senate procedure their advantage?
Read more...Who, Exactly, Are the “Illegals,” Anyhow?
Deconstructing the Times’ coverage of an immigration raid
Read more...SEC Knifes Its Whistleblower Program
Just when you think the SEC can’t possibly to more to demonstrate how toothless it is, it reinforces its sorry reputation in by gutting its Dodd-Frank mandated whistleblower, and worse, in a manner that Commission Kara Stein suggest is illegal.
Read more...David Davis Resignation Throws UK Brexit, Cabinet Into Chaos
Brexit goes chaotic.
Read more...The Jobs Guarantee, “Make-Work,” and FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
Read more...Fast Fashion: Recycling No Panacea
House of Commons committee launches inquiry into environmental costs of fast fashion, with a misplaced emphasis on recycling rather than reducing consumption outright.
Read more...Gaius Publius: SF Chronicle OpEd – The Next U.S. Constitution Is Forming now
More on our slow-motion Constitutional crisis.
Read more...Iran Threatens To Close the Strait of Hormuz
Yves here. A map of the Strait of Hormuz and environs seemed a useful addition. The danger, as the article insinuates, is that if things got that far, a conflict over the Strait of Hormuz would escalate into a full-scale conflagration. By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, a long-time observer of the global energy market. Presently, he […]
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How businesses created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...Anthony Kennedy and Our Delayed Constitutional Crisis
The role Justice Anthony Kennedy played in the deteriorating legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Read more...EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan
The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
Read more...California Passes Online Privacy Law
California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Data on 20 million children and their parents show how racial disparities persist across generations in the US.
Read more...Taxcast: How Accountants Broke Capitalism
No matter what the scandal is, when it comes to financial secrecy and tax dodging, the so-called big four accountancy firms are key players. The latest June 2018 Taxcast discusses how accountants broke capitalism.
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