“Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
On the deliberately vicious use of supposedly use of less lethal weapons.
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Questioning Innovation
Why innovation isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Read more...The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
Read more...What This Election Proves Is the Need for Epoch Making Change
The upcoming UK election will usher in major change. But will it be change that benefits ordinary people?
Read more...Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?
How human psychology and institutional incentives undermine making good decisions in the political arena, and what can be done about that.
Read more...How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like the People of Chile and Lebanon?
Americans are not big on protests, and people abroad are perplexed
Read more...Millennials’ Health Deteriorating, Projected Mortality Rates Higher Than GenX; “Deaths of Despair” a Major Culprit
A sobering picture of the health outlook for Millennials.
Read more...How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Class Loses Share of Household Wealth to the 1%. Bottom Half Gets Screwed
It is bizarre to see the Fed present data showing the Gilded Age level of wealth accumulation by the 1% as if that were a badge of honor.
Read more...The Political Colour of Fiscal Responsibility: Trump’s Fiscal Policy as a Republican Tradition
Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
Read more...The Many Ways Sanders and Warren Are Different & Why It Matters
A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...Another Health Industry Initiative to House the Homeless
Some small-scale initiatives to aid the homeless demonstrate how inadequate our respojnses are.
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