The Political Colour of Fiscal Responsibility: Trump’s Fiscal Policy as a Republican Tradition
Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
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The Many Ways Sanders and Warren Are Different & Why It Matters
A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...Another Health Industry Initiative to House the Homeless
Some small-scale initiatives to aid the homeless demonstrate how inadequate our respojnses are.
Read more...America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
Read more...What Randomised Control Trials Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
Read more...Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities?
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...NCAA Votes to Allow College Athletes to Benefit from the Use of Their Names, Images, and Likenesses
NCAA bows to the seeming inevitable and votes to allow college athletes to profit from endorsements: or does it? Details to follow…
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 4 of 4: The Empire as Hegemonic “Banana Republic” Ruled by Caudillos
The finale in a short history of the Roman Republic.
Read more...Grab Your Apocalypse Bag — It’s Fire Season in California
Increased fire risk is creating new behaviors in California. May be coming to your area soon….
Read more...Global Protests Round-Up: Authoritarian Adaptation, Data Gathering, and the Role of Class
A review of the literature on global protests (as in Chile, France, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and Spain/Catalonia).
Read more...Our Response to the Next Crisis Must Tackle Consumerism
Ideas for taking on consumerism.
Read more...The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized
Turning to a classic policy debate: equality versus equity.
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