Beating the Tax Gap
The UK focuses on the tax gap, how much tax it ought to be collecting versus what it gets. Why isn’t this a concern in the US?
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Michael Olenick: Debunking Yet Another Misleading Gun Study
A gun “study” falls apart when given a cursory examination.
Read more...Why Positive Thinking Won’t Get You Out of Poverty
The New York Times condescends to people in poverty.
Read more...Holding the Line on Torture
An update on the struggle to get US mental health professionals out of the business of advising on torture techniques.
Read more...Witch Hunts in the Western World, Past and Present
Identifying the driving forces behind historical witch hunts and assessing their relevance to today.
Read more...Fear and Loathing — Mostly Loathing — with Chris Hedges at the Harvard Club
A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...America’s Broken Retirement System is a Recipe for Political Chaos
Bolstering, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution to America’s retirement train wreck.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What to Expect from a Kavanaugh Court – Government-Funded “Religious” Education
Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
Read more...Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Will Be Good for Shareholders
Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
Read more...Rethinking Social Progress in the 21st Century
A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Progressives Ask Why So Many Unions Seem Anti-Progressive
Progressives are waking up to the fact that most unions are not on their side.
Read more...Where in the World Is It Easiest to Get Rich?
Debunking American exceptionalism on a pet obsession: the ability to get rich.
Read more...Misperceptions About Immigration and Support for Redistribution
A large scale survey in six countries found that respondents typically had inaccurate ideas about the level of immigration, but thinking about migrants made them less supportive of redistribution policies.
Read more...Can the Migration Plan of Spain’s PSOE Reverse the Fortunes of Europe’s Social Democrats?
Why he future of the EU social democratic parties very likely depends on how the PSOE will address the migration issue.
Read more...The National Insecurity State and the United States of Inequality
For tens of millions of Americans, the source of deep workaday insecurity isn’t the standard roster of foreign enemies, but an ever-more entrenched system of inequality.
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