Gaius Publius: The Collapsing Social Contract
Tracing the trajectory of social breakdown in the US.
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The Tragedy of ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ and the U.S.’s Insane Approach to Dental Care
Lack of dental care weighs as heavily on the poor, particularly the rural poor, as access to what we usually define as “medical” care.
Read more...The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Privatization conflates public and private interests. In conflicts between them, the private interests win out.
Read more...The Universal Basic Income Discussion
Kicking the tires on various Universal Basic Income proposals.
Read more...Nina Turner: Wall St. Democrats vs. Working Class Democrats
A wide-ranging discussion with Nina Turner from the People’s Summit in Chicago.
Read more...EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: Data Contradicts Washington Post’s Social Security Disability Welfare Cheating Story
Debunking a Washington Post narrative on the Social Security Disability Income program.
Read more...Starved School Budgets Across the US: A Symptom of Education Funding Crisis
School budgets are in worse shape in many parts of the US than you might have imagined.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: More Job Guarantee Muddle
Why there is a lot not to like in the Center for American Progress’ job guarantee proposal.
Read more...Toward a Jobs Guarantee at the Center for American Progress (!)
A look at a new Jobs Guarantee proposal from Neera Tanden and Rey Teixeira.
Read more...More Evidence School Choice Hurts Student Performance
More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
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