How Universities Are Increasingly Choosing Capitalism Over Education
How universities have come to operate less in interest of the public and more and more as private enterprises.
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Gaius Publius: Should Progressives Let Corporate Democrats Lead and Be the Face Of the Resistance?
Why corporate Democrats are not your friends.
Read more...Hidden Distress Among Well-Off Women in America
Why have lifespans flattened among middle and upper middle class women?
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not: Right to Repair Laws on Agenda in Some States
Right to repair laws are back on the agenda in five states. These measures would reduce costs and waste, and promote local repair services.
Read more...Do Corporate Democrats Like Charles Schumer Belong in a Progressive Movement Against Trump?
Trump has wasted no time in implementing campaign pledges. How closely should progressives work with corporate Democrats?
Read more...Trumping Capitalism?
Will Trump change capitalism, and if so, how?
Read more...James F on Hatred in Our Divided Nation: Anger at Flyover Country
Immigration, free trade, and automation have made Flyover Country people redundant but they’re not going away fast enough for urban elites.
Read more...Bill Black: Not 4 Sale – Why the Corrupt, Worker-Hating New Democrats Must Be Purged
Why the corporate and finance funded, labor-loathing New Democrats have been a disaster for the party and America and need to go.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: Deaton on Opioids, Trump (and What Does “Rural” Mean?)
The Case-Deaton study and the counties that went for Trump.
Read more...More on the Economic Hardship of Young Adults
Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...One of the Reasons Republicans Hate Food Stamps? It Helps Democrats Win Elections
Many people think food stamp advocacy is politically dangerous for Democrats, but a new paper suggests otherwise.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: How the US Blew the Post-Cold-War Era
Why the end of the Cold War and the era of the US as the world’s sole superpower has not worked out as well as predicted.
Read more...F@ck Work?
Why arguments against work are another manifestation of neoliberalism.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – India’s Demonetization Debacle
India’s demonetization debacle has destroyed growth in what was the world’s fastest growing economy while failing to ferret out black money.
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