US Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, then Conservatives Worked to Demolish Public Education
How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
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Understanding Right and Left Populism
Experts appear to have understated the role of economic insecurity in sparking the rise of populism.
Read more...Lib-Pop Politics: Italy’s New Government Is More Neoliberal Than Populist
Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine “Blue Lives Matter” Into Law
“Progressive” Democrats back “Blue Lives Matter,” an effort designed to undermine Black Lives Matter.
Read more...To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...Yes, Neoliberalism Is a Thing. Don’t Let Economists Tell You Otherwise
Now that people have started to discover what neoliberalism is, denialism is the rage.
Read more...Political Precariat
A look at the broader economic and political implications of the rise of the precariat.
Read more...The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism
How two economists sought to reconcile Marx’s idea of common ownership with market mechanisms.
Read more...200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding History
How Marx recognized the economic forces that give rise to and perpetuate ideologies that promote injustice.
Read more...Corbyn’s Critics: Time to Come Round
After six shocks in three years, can Corbyn sceptics face the party’s new reality?
Read more...How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
Read more...The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the relentless rise in inequality.
Read more...The Revenge Against the Commons
Why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968 is prepared to kill for Macron to roust a 4000 acre commons.
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...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.
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