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A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland
Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them.
Read more...Barriers to Entry: On Bar Exams and Supreme Court Seats
California to lower passing score for its state bar to increase; Judge Posner suggests Supreme Court seats should be open to non-lawyers.
Read more...Rising from the Ashes, a Buffalo Suburb Ends its Dependence on Coal
Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...Seeking Refuge in Refugees
Entries from the diary of a volunteer in a refugee camp.
Read more...When Trying to Increase Your Pay Was Dangerous
The long and often brutal history of owners scheming to contain pay levels.
Read more...Inequality: How We Got Here, and What Should Be Done
More discussion of the causes of rising inequality and possible remedies.
Read more...Bill Black: Those to Blame for the Grenfell Fire Victims Include Tony Blair
The victims of Grenfell were condemned to death by an ideology and a rejection of science and the value of human life that captured the Tories, Lib-Dems, and “New Labor.”
Read more...Lee Camp: Here’s Why There Is No Legitimate Healthcare Debate In This Country
A righteous rant about why the way Americans have been propagandized to think about healthcare is a travesty.
Read more...Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
Read more...Photographs from Grenfell Tower
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...Why Is PBS Airing Right-Wing-Sponsored School Privatization Propaganda?
PBS is promoting an attack on public schools. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Collapsing Social Contract
Tracing the trajectory of social breakdown in the US.
Read more...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.
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