Voting Matters
Musing on the vagaries of voting in the US.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade
The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Story of 2017 (Part 2)
Why the ordinary-ness of 2017 is in some ways as important as its unusual moments.
Read more...Why the Progressive Movement Should Think Longer Term
A better future starts with your vision for the future—not tweeting or posting to Facebook or Instagram.
Read more...From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
Read more...Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...More Power to the Workers: Seymour Melman on Extraction by the Military, Managers, and Finance
Why workers are the nexus of production and prosperity.
Read more...Chaos in Catalonia Hits Barcelona Housing Bubble
Barcelona wanted to take some air out of its property bubble. Will it wind up getting more than it bargained for?
Read more...California’s “Marijuana Revolution” (and $5 Billion Industry), and Cory Booker Does the Right Thing
Big Pharma moves in after California legalizes marijuana, as do the unions, and Cory Booker’s surprisingly good decriminalization bill.
Read more...Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than Fix
Baltimore hospitals know how to help. But there’s no money in it.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Congressional Review Act, Supportive Constituencies (and Injunctions)
The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
Read more...As the Tourists Return, Half of Puerto Rico Remains Without Power, Thanks to PROMESA, while Workers Leave, and Vulture Capital Circles
The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Obama Chose Wall Street Over Main Street
The Democratic Party must acknowledge that the 2008 crash created conditions for much more progressive policies – but Obama did not step up.
Read more...The Nina Turner Show: The Role of the Protestor with Erica Garner
Erica Garner died yesterday. Nina Turner conducted this interview with her in October on the role of the protestor. Much wisdom here.
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