New CDC Study Shows Large Increase in Suicides Since 1999
Rising suicides provide more evidence that all is not well in America.
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A 1,000-Year Flood in Maryland Shows the Big Problem With So Much Asphalt
Why Ellicott City’s flood didn’t have to be the disaster it was.
Read more...The Political Significance of LSD
LSD is back in vogue. Is that a good thing?
Read more...More Evidence of Increasing Deflationary Pressure on Wages
Bosses on wages: “No more raises for you!”
Read more...Did Italy’s 5 Star-Lega Coalition Blink in Its First Standoff With Eurocrats and Banksters?
Taking stock of the opening moves in the confrontation between Italy’s upstarts and the European establishment.
Read more...Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided
Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...US Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, then Conservatives Worked to Demolish Public Education
How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
Read more...Understanding Right and Left Populism
Experts appear to have understated the role of economic insecurity in sparking the rise of populism.
Read more...Lib-Pop Politics: Italy’s New Government Is More Neoliberal Than Populist
Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine “Blue Lives Matter” Into Law
“Progressive” Democrats back “Blue Lives Matter,” an effort designed to undermine Black Lives Matter.
Read more...To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...Yes, Neoliberalism Is a Thing. Don’t Let Economists Tell You Otherwise
Now that people have started to discover what neoliberalism is, denialism is the rage.
Read more...Political Precariat
A look at the broader economic and political implications of the rise of the precariat.
Read more...The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism
How two economists sought to reconcile Marx’s idea of common ownership with market mechanisms.
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