Neoclassical Economics is Dead. What Comes Next?
Economics does not have to be the dismal science.
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Michael Hudson: Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
Have the contradictions of the Democratic Party’s overarching strategy finally become untenable?
Read more...Why Voters Rejected Plans to Replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and What’s Next for Policing Reform
Assessing the significance of Minneapolis voters turning down an initiative to “replace” the police.
Read more...Debt Cancellation: Taxi Drivers Savor Victory as Medallion Debt Bailout Deal Ends Hunger Strike
How New York City taxi drivers won a rare and much needed debt restructuring.
Read more...Will Glasgow Fix Broken Climate Finance Promises?
A sad but not surprising tally of how the Glasgow summit fell way short on climate handwaves, um, commitments.
Read more...‘Manchin Is a F**king Snake’: Progressives Urged to Keep Pushing for Both Bills
Jayapal is “letting the president” handle Manchin after he says he won’t budge on the reconciliation package.
Read more...“Democrats Introduce Plan To Fix Social Security, The Way We Fixed the Cat”
Here we go again….another Democrat scheme to gut Social Security.
Read more...Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — And Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
On how the media does (and doesn’t) construct reality.
Read more...Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.
Read more...Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage
Raising minimum wages is good for workers and (surprise!) company operations! Too bad those whiny managers worry they will skim less.
Read more...‘This Is a Battle Between What People Need & What Money Wants.’ How’s That Going to End?
Class warfare, American style, is ever more obvious. But how much are ordinary people taking note?
Read more...Evidence on the Effects of Work Requirements in Safety Net Programs
Quelle surprise! Work requirements in social safety programs reduce participation, as opposed to help the recipients.
Read more...Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Read more...Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Read more...Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
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