Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
Why Sotomayor should, erm, take one for the team!
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Do We Really Need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?
Theresa May’s [anti] modern slavery project serves as a point of departure for considering policy options.
Read more...How Biden Can Win on the Economy: Stop Mass Layoffs
Why has Biden failed to add a clause to Federal contracts to protect workers from mass layoffs?
Read more...Tilting at Windmills: Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
The obsession of big-name economists with defending a bad model has consequences, here, a policy aim of whacking wages.
Read more...Europe’s New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
New EU fiscal rules, touted as creating and economic growth, actually embody a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Read more...Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
Read more...Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Read more...Combating “Hate”: The Trojan Horse for Precrime
Canada pushes ahead with a pre-hate-crime bill as US states continue with programs to collect data on all types of hate “incidents.” Can “precrime” really prevent hate or are there ulterior motives at hand?
Read more...NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income.
Read more...The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease – Are Non-Profits a Solution?
How to increase development of pharmaceuticals to treat tropical diseases, which afflict millions yet are neglected?
Read more...Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
Instead of closing schools, many communities are pushing their districts to think about schools differently.
Read more...“I Don’t Believe in Growth”
Why growth is no panacea.
Read more...Minneapolis Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Uber and Lyft Minimum Rates
“Essential” workers are cross-sectoral organizing across Minnesota and scoring victories.
Read more...Collapse on the EU Home Front
Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
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