Category Archives: Politics

Is Toothpaste Dangerous to Your Health?

The US relies on industry self-regulation of personal care products, thus exposing consumers to harms, in contrast to Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Back to the Future? Lessons on Inequality, Labor Markets, and Conflict from the Gilded Age

Warning to capitalists: the high levels of inequality of the deregulated Gilded Age led to concerted and effective pushback by workers.

Trickle Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races

Billionaires are targeting key state races.

A Hard Look at the War Criminals, Um, Hawks Who Say “Never Trump”

The hawks who are throwing bricks at Trump forgot that they are living in glass houses.

Gaius Publius: “You Broke It, You Bought It” – A Sanders Activist Challenges Clinton Supporters

Clinton’s hard move to the right is causing some consternation among bona fide progressives. But what will they do about it?

SEC Shamed: Whistleblower Refuses Multimillion Dollar Award Due to Ex-Deutsche Bank Attorneys at SEC Protecting Deutsche Execs (and Themselves)

Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi makes a huge financial sacrifice to call out corruption in SEC enforcement.

Brexit Delusion Rises Even Further: City Pumping for Presumptuous, Nightmarish-to-Negotiate “Swiss Plus” Plan

The Brexit fantasies get even bigger as the City pumps for a na ga happen “Swiss plus” plan.

Trip Reports from Sanders Delegates at the Democrat National Convention

Sanders supporters sum up their experiences in Philly.

Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation Myth

Why fiscal consolidation, which is neoliberal economists’ pet idea that austerity increases growth, is all wet.

ObamaCare Death Spiral Accelerates as Aetna Pulls out of the Exchanges

Aetna’s withdrawal from the ObamaCare exchanges intensifies the health care policy debate, including the “public option” and single payer