The Ogre & the Cog: A Tale of Modern Misallocation
The tale of the ogre and the cog endeavors to explain why modern capitalist machinery isn’t working the way it is supposed to. The open question is whether this is inevitable.
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Black Lives Matter Activist Confronts Clinton About Racially Charged “Superpredator” Statement Because the Corporate Media Won’t
When confronted by Black Lives Matter, Sanders gave them the mike. By contrast, Clinton started temporizing and had them removed.
Read more...A Clinton Presidency Has Been/Would Be a Disaster for Black and Brown Communities. Here’s Why.
Hillary Clinton supported policies that devastated black communities, as well as using racist code words to attract Southern whites.
Read more...San Francisco: “Baghdad by the Bay” for People of Color
Racism is alive and well in the San Francisco police force.
Read more...Did Money Evolve? You Might (Not) Be Surprised
A short history of money, and what that tells you about it.
Read more...The Koch “Center for Free Enterprise”: A Slippery Slope Indeed
The Koch brothers see academia as yet another activity that adheres to the Golden Rule: he who has the gold sets the rules.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Michelle Alexander, the Black Community & the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Michelle Alexander and some other black political and opinion leaders challenge knee-jerk loyalty to Hillary Clinton. Will these doubts spread?
Read more...Can Mass Migration Boost Innovation and Productivity?
Mass migration is getting a bad rap. Is it entirely deserved?
Read more...Online Public Schools Are a Disaster, Admits Billionaire, Charter School-Promoter Walton Family Foundation
Online public schools now assume a surprisingly large role and do a terrible job, providing yet more proof that charter schools are about looting, not education.
Read more...Bill Black: The AEI and Brookings Sell Marriage as the Solution for Poverty
Marriage is the new cheap fix for poverty…which means by implication that single low income women are a new category of the undeserving poor.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates, and Reparations
Adolph Reed begs to differ with Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations.
Read more...Trump’s Neofascism Isn’t Going Away, Even if Trump Does
Trump represents a new strain in American politics: low wage full employment and the protection of the status of big business through violent discipline.
Read more...Fiscal Cost of Refugees in Europe
Data in Sweden shows that even with generous support for refugees, the costs are not high.
Read more...“This is Just Evil”: Massive Private License Plate Database Tracks Car Locations Over Years
Large-scale logging of time and location stamped license plate data, retained over years, means Big Brother knows where you have been.
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