China as a Developmental State: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
China chose a successful technological development path, in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States.
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Republicans Are Being Mean to the IRS, Not That the Democrats Are Helping
It may seem peculiar to offer a defense of sort to the IRS, since most people here regard doing their taxes with even less enthusiasm than a visit to the dentist (although attitudes depend very much on the state of one’s finances and teeth). However, the reporting on the Democratic Party plan to increase IRS […]
Read more...Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers
Abortion has heated up normally sleepy state and local attorney general races.
Read more...Scientific Research and the Unforeseen World: Why Basic Research is Essential
How the current process of funding science discourages basic research and makes fundamenal breakthroughs less likely.
Read more...10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
Read more...Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So
Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.
Read more...80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security
Social Security is so popular that an overwhelming majority wants more. But that’s apparently one of the nice things we can’t have.
Read more...For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
Read more...The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming
Supporters of cutting carbon emissions to tackle global warming have long struggled against advocates of climate-change adaptation strategies
Read more...Oakland-Based Cooperative Builds Community Through Collective Property Ownership
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative takes historic real estate off the speculative market in West Oakland to help residents.
Read more...The IRA Drug Price ‘Victory’
A high-level description of the empty bag known as the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price controls.
Read more...Italy’s Upcoming Election and Its Ongoing Neoliberal Project
More on the EU upset over Italy’s move to the right, like the expected success of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) in Sept. elections.
Read more...How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives
Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.
Read more...America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
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