US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Wall Street Journal on Americans Being Less Willing to Have Children
The Journal gives a largely sympathetic account of why fewer are having children, even as it may be going easy on cost pressures.
Read more...The US Vassal State of Germany Comes Apart
Alternative for Germany and Sahra Wagenknecht are likely to perform well as government doubles down on failed policies and castigates voters.
Read more...A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It
An initiative in the Southwestern US demonstrates that health care for the homeless can be financially viable.
Read more...Targeting Corporate Landlords, Biden to Unveil National Rent Control Plan
Rent has become unaffordable in many US cities. But Biden makes a gesture about it only when his campaign is floundering.
Read more...States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.
How a Biden administration initiative to improve nursing homes’ staffing is floundering due to lax enforcement.
Read more...Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims
EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Read more...‘How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We Are Everywhere’
How Israel uses inhumane, experimental surveillance technology against Palestinians. Will this become that new normal?
Read more...Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...The Anxious Generation: A View of Where We Are and What Should Come Next
Jonathan Haidt contends that changes in childrearing practices have produced adults who on average are more anxious and fragile
Read more...Puppies Behind Bars and the Question of the Role of Prisons
A beautifully written story about a program which has inmates train service dogs shows some of our conflicts about the purpose of prisons.
Read more...The EU ‘Doom Loop’: Bloc Set to Embrace More Austerity Despite Evidence It Will Cause Further Rightward Shift
The National Rally wins first round in France. Why do the self-described centrists keep making it so easy for the far right?
Read more...How Camping Bans − Like the One the Supreme Court Just Upheld − Can Fit into ‘Hostile Design’: Strategies to Push Out Homeless People
The US Supreme Court decides it is not cruel to make it illegal for homeless people to sleep.
Read more...After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
Fiscal pressures are set to intensify battles among shifting European leadership groups as to how much to spend and on what.
Read more...Finance Healthcare, Not Insurance Premia
A new study finds that revenue-funded healthcare is cost-effective, efficient, and fair, while all health insurance has avoidable excess cost
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