The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
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Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.
Read more...New USPS Delivery Network: Radically Cutting Rural Service, Headcount; Likely to Further Slow Delivery
The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.
Read more...Truss’s Plan to Hike Defence Funding and Ignore the Climate Is a Disaster
How Liz Truss’ defense budget math does not work…or does really well if the point is to roll social support back to Victorian workhouses.
Read more...Tories Create a Hostile Environment for Gypsies and Travellers
Tory policy and legislation on Gypsies and Travellers deprives them of a place to live and targets them with criminal penalties.
Read more...Why It’s Time to Declassify the Documents From Trump’s Basement
It’s time for “Show me the documents” in the fight over records Trump had at Mar a Lago and the Feds took back, alleging serious misconduct
Read more...‘Culture Has Lost the Ability to Grasp the Present’
An extract from Mark Fisher’s ‘Ghosts of My Life’ discusses how culture has hit the pause button.
Read more...Liberalism Is Not the Opposite of Conservatism
How debates over liberalism and conservatism obscure the core issue: Why does capital control labor, and not labor capital?
Read more...Bernie Sanders to Warren Buffett: Give Rail Workers Better Conditions to Avoid Strike
Buffett’s huge railroad gains versus the terrible pay and benefits for rail workers curiously go unmenitoned by Team Dem as a strike looms
Read more...A Moment of Silence
Why a moment of silence is not enough.
Read more...Queen Elizabeth II: A Moderniser Who Steered the British Monarchy into the 21st Century
A long sweep of Elizabeth II’s reign.
Read more...In Refusing to Prioritize Drivers’ Safety, UPS Risks Major Strike
Transportation and delivery workers have increasingly had it. Now UPS employees are on the verge of forcing their issues.
Read more...How Unions Are Combating Domestic Violence
As domesitc violence is rising, more union contracts are including provisions to help workers cope.
Read more...Socially Blindsided: Social Foundations of Pandemic Protection
This column focuses on two major societal characteristics: solidarity and agency. The authors show that the G7 countries differ dramatically in terms of these characteristics, which affect countries’ ability to cope with the pandemic. Furthermore, these societal characteristics can be influenced through public policies.
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