Lee Camp: Here’s Why There Is No Legitimate Healthcare Debate In This Country
A righteous rant about why the way Americans have been propagandized to think about healthcare is a travesty.
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Nick Turse: The Special Ops Fallacy – Throwing Elite Resources at “Winless Wars”
The US is enamored with special ops as a magic bullet in America’s many “interventions”. There’s a big gap between enthusiasm and results.
Read more...America and China: A Quick Critique of “The Thucydides Trap”
Is the concept of a “rising” China inevitably in conflict with a “ruling” United States correct?
Read more...Robert Reich: The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid
The Republican Plan indexes Medicaid to inflation, but overall inflation, which is slower than medical inflation.
Read more...Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: How Many People Will Obamacare and AHCA Kill?
Subjecting Obamacare to the same measuring stick that the Center for American Progress applied to the ACHA.
Read more...Some People “Would Rather Have 1st Class Seats on the Titanic Than Change the Course of the Ship”
Why it is necessary to depose Democratic party leaders like Pelosi and Schumer to have any chance of winning class and climate change wars.
Read more...CFPB Lambastes Student Loan Servicers for Thwarting Public Servant Debt Relief
CFPB report details errors and practices of student loan servicers that will bar borrowers from qualifying for debt forgiveness.
Read more...It’s Not (Just) the Working Class. It’s the Service Class
Why the way for Democrats to regain political power is to target the service class…assuming they can bring themselves to do that.
Read more...Americans Tolerate Inequality Because They Over-Estimate Their Odds of Coming Out on Top
How Americans’ optimism leads to self-delusion on their odds of success, and therefore to not supporting policies in their real interest.
Read more...Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American Carnage”
An in-depth look at Trump’s economic plans shows they would enrich the 1% and hurt the “forgotten people” he promised to help.
Read more...John Helmer: Chrystia Freeland’s Family Lie Grows Bigger And Blacker– Michael Chomiak Volunteered For Hitler Before Ukraine Was Invaded and Was Hunted by the Polish Police Until the 1980s
On the subject of her Nazi grandfather, Michael Chomiak, it turns out Chrystia Freeland’s nose is so long that she needs to get a hacksaw.
Read more...Brexit and the Future of the Irish Border
Why there is no good solution of the Irish border problem in Brexit, and how the Tories’ new buddies, the DUP, have contradictory goals.
Read more...Photographs from Grenfell Tower
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...Trump Cuba Policy Reversal: More Sound and Fury, Signifying…. No Mucho
Trump’s latest policy change announced to distinguish him from his predecessor– regarding Cuba- signifies thus far, no mucho.
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