Gaius Publius: Setting a Perjury Trap for Trump
Is Mueller engaging in prosecutorial overreach in the form of trying to set a perjury trap for Trump?
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Congress Offers Bipartisan Blank Warmaking Check to Donald Trump
Major Danny Sjursen chronicles the sorry history of Congress ceding its check on war-making powers.
Read more...Why Capitalism Creates Racism
Why separating racism from capitalist exploitation of low-wage workers isn’t as tidy as the Democratic Party would have you believe.
Read more...The US Teachers Strike in Historical Perspective
Past strike waves offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
Read more...Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (“The Wave”; the DCCC)
No sign of “the wave” yet.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Our Communities Are Scaled and Built for a Climate That No Longer Exists
Why combatting climate change will require the use of force.
Read more...Why Board Member and Vocal Critic of CalPERS Margaret Brown Needs to Stay The Course
A successful public pension fund reformer explains how determined foes of transparency and accountability play dirty.
Read more...Want a More Equal Society? Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Policy You Are Looking For
Why a Universal Basic Income won’t produce the benefits its boosters claim it will.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Bronze Age Redux – What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Debt
Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation was central to the politics of ancient societies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What To Do About Facebook — First Thoughts
Why Facebook needs to be broken up, and how to do it.
Read more...The U.S. Border as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
Despite Trump’s braying about it, the militarization of the US border has been an ongoing project.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Brexit, Security, and the UK’s Coming Poodledom
Adding to the tally of how the UK will come out a loser thanks to Brexit.
Read more...Middle East Nightmare, Made in Washington
How the US is at risk of creating Armageddon in the Middle East.
Read more...China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy
China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
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