How the Cutthroat Walmart Business Model Is Reshaping American Public Education
Walmart has played a huge role in promoting and funding the charter school movement and plans to expand much further.
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Hoisted From Comments: American Education, Then and Now
A query to readers with children in or who have very recently graduated from public school: has education stagnated, as experts suggest, or is it getting worse?
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting
Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
Read more...National Poll Finds Bipartisan Suport for Serious Regulation of Charter Schools
The public is dissatisfied with charter schools and wants curbs put on them.
Read more...Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll Announce It Just as Soon as the Republican Presidential Candidates Tell Us Theirs
Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...James Galbraith: The Friedman v. Romers Growth Debate on the Sanders Plan – A Summing Up
How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
Read more...Merkel Channels Varoufakis: “No Plan B,” in This Case, on Migrants
Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
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