Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
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Americans Didn’t Vote for Change. For Many, It Wasn’t on the Ballot
Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...China Takes Step Against Securitization, Consumer Borrowing With Suspension of Ant IPO
With its smackdown of Ant and its billionaire founder Jack Ma, China has made clear that financiers do not call the shots.
Read more...How Wiccans and Witches Mark Halloween With Reflections on Death as Well as Magic
A primer on Wiccans.
Read more...Revisiting the Rise of Italian Fascism
The example of Mussolini suggests that fear of socialist policies played a big role in the rise of fascism.
Read more...A (Very) Short History of the Idea of Ending Poverty
As material output increased, so to has the interest in treating poverty as a potentially solvable problem.
Read more...Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Truth
We can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don’t stand on common ground.
Read more...Trust and Compliance with Public Health Policies in the Time of COVID-19
Quelle surprise! Societies that trust their leaders are more willing to go along with Covid-19 restrictions.
Read more...Why the George Floyd Protests Succeeded Where Others Failed
Looking at what the George Floyd and later Black Lives Matter protests over the summer did right.
Read more...Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
How Jim Crow laws were a backlash against 19th Century populism of having poor whites and blacks join forces to seek economic justice.
Read more...How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
Some past pandemics ushered in massive changes….but only with massive death levels. So can the powers that be rest easy with Covid?
Read more...“Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump”
An illustration that some and perhaps many Trump voters don’t fit mainstream media stereotypes.
Read more...How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
A new book by Sarah Chayes shows the US descent into a level of corruption usually associated with places like Nigeria and Afghanistan
Read more...Election Violence in November? Here’s What the Research Says
Why worries about violence and worse, fascism come the fall are largely suburban pearl-clutching as opposed to well-founded fears.
Read more...How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets
Why the riots of this summer resulted from the ever-increasing exploitation of low-income Americans, and how a Job Guarantee would reverse this power imbalance.
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