The Graham Platner Affair
A post mortem of the successful effort to end Graham Platner’s Senate bid and any future in politics.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
How Stories Change the Human Brain, Empathy, Memory, and Behavior
Yves here. Stories are integral to decision-making. Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys know well that juries reach their verdicts not on weighing evidence but on constructing the story that seems to them to fit the evidence best and then see what that means in terms of a ruling. It’s thus disconcerting to see how tech […]
Read more...How Unions Pave the Way to the American Dream
Even with rising inequality and weak labor rights, unions secure enough improvements in pay and conditions to provide some class mobility.
Read more...Culture Is the Far Right’s Secret Weapon – and It’s Winning Over Some of Europe’s Most Educated Youth
EU officials seem aghast at the fact that many citizens, particularly the young, identify with national or local culture.
Read more...A Bang or a Whimper? Comparing Imperial Collapse in the US to the UK’s Decline
Book Review: Erik Linstrum’s ‘Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire’.
Read more...The Hypersociality Hypothesis
Can hypersociality help reconcile obvious elite stupidity with top-down conspiracy theories?
Read more...Michael Hudson: How US Slave Interests Stifled US Monetary and Banking Policy Until 1913
On US 250th anniversary celebration, Michael Hudson considers the counter-revolution thesis and the role of slave capital.
Read more...Coffee Break: Apathetic Americans, Science Agonistes, and Cool Science
Part the First: Jessica Wildfire on Apathetic Americans. As a paid-up member of the Professional Managerial Class who came from a thoroughly working-class background, I tend to hear and see things differently from most of my colleagues. An enduring theme among them is “They just don’t seem to care…” Not exactly. From Heads Above Water: […]
Read more...Do Muslims Want Sharia Law in the West?
Asking about Sharia Law in the West creates an erroneous binary for Muslims, ignoring a deeper view of law, land, and the modern nation-state.
Read more...Supreme Court Denies Pork Industry Appeal of Animal Welfare Law
How the Supremes gave a win for farm animals over Big Ag.
Read more...Big Money, the Maine Senate Race and US Party Competition: A Tale in Two Pictures
A “follow the money” analysis of the Maine Senate race, as in the Platner challenge, shows that it is indeed an exercise in class warfare.
Read more...These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt
A grass-roots effort to extinguish medical debt shows how destructive and ought-to-be-criminal US debt collection is.
Read more...Democrats’ Spunky Spooks Show There’s No Blue Light at the End of the Trump Tunnel
Elected last year on cost-of-living platforms, spook governors spit in the face of labor and embrace data centers and police state.
Read more...Ukraine’s Spree Of Strikes Against Russia Is More Showmanship Than Strategy
The European ruling class continues to deceive the EU people. Are they also deceiving themselves?
Read more...Obama Legacy: As Celebrities Descended Upon Chicago Presidential Center, Across Town Firefighters Were Evacuating Patients From Another Private-Equity-Destroyed Hospital
Let’s try to understand how Barry raised a billion for his Borg ship. Don’t forget your Altoids.
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