San Francisco: “Baghdad by the Bay” for People of Color
Racism is alive and well in the San Francisco police force.
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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.
Read more...A Lesson for 2016: Upton’s Sinclair’s 1934 End Poverty in California (EPIC) Gubernatorial Campaign
Upton Sinclair put forward radical plan for combatting the desperate conditions of the Great Depression. They illustrate how blinkered our vision has become.
Read more...New York Review of Books on How Oligarchs Use Philanthropy to Advance Their Social Agendas (and a Shout Out to NC)
How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.
Read more...Robert Reich: Why the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party
The history of the political calculus that led the Democratic Party to turn its back on its traditional base, the working class, and how that’s coming back to bite now.
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