Federal Police Reform Talks Have Failed – But Local Efforts Stand a Better Chance of Success
Federal police reform was unlikely to go anywhere, but what might succeed?
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Record Level of American Men Foregoing College
Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...Elite Educators Have Milked the System for Long Enough
As the pandemic deepens inequality, it’s vital to dismantle the system that gives state schools no chance against elite peers
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It
From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...Book Review: The Rise of Harm Reduction in the War on Drugs
Maia Szalavitz’s “Undoing Drugs” chronicles the growing harm reduction movement which prioritizes people in the battle against addiction.
Read more...Mask Mandates Save Lives
Who’d have thunk it? Those crazy doctors in operating rooms are on to something. Masks work.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts
Commemorating a desructive anniversary, that of the Powell memo that set forth how big business would wage war against ordinary citizens.
Read more...School or ‘Russian Roulette’? Amid Delta Variant and Lax Mask Rules, Some Parents See No Difference
A discussion of parents worried about sending their kids back to school curiously contains only red state/nonurban examples.
Read more...Economic Backwardness and Religious Persecution
The Spanish Inquisition as a case study in the long term economic impact of persecution.
Read more...Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
The Great Reset is a planned corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines.
Read more...Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?
Labor exploitation, higher education edition.
Read more...Michael M. Thomas, R.I.P
I am very much saddened by the death of Michael M. Thomas, from old money and high finance, and vocally unimpressed by them.
Read more...Close to 50% of US Workers Can’t Afford to Rent One Bedroom Housing
An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
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