The Logic of the Police State in America
How police forces are openly taking the position that they are not accountable to democratic processes and how that attitude is translating into policies and actions.
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White America’s Toxic Ignorance: Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the Real Privilege That Goes Unspoken
The fact that Scalia argues against affirmative action comes close to serving as proof that it is sound policy, or at least less bad than the alternatives.
Read more...How Managerialsm/ Generic Management Damaged the American Red Cross
“Managerialism” is a form of looting: coast on an established brand name and goodwill while degrading the actual service in order to pay the top executives more.
Read more...Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here’s Their Secret
Contrary to conventional wisdom, poor, fresh to the US Latino immigrants are healthier than Latinos born here. Why?
Read more...Koch-Sponsored Sentencing “Reform”: A Fake Break for Minorities, A Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card for White Collar Crooks
How sentencing “reform” will make it more difficult to prosecute white collar criminals.
Read more...Ilargi: Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown
Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
Read more...How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
On how race plays into the operation of a “dual economy”.
Read more...The Internet of Things – Supplied or Demanded?
An intriguing comparison of how the Internet of Things is being sold in the US and Japan.
Read more...Why Paul Krugman Blew It on His ‘Solution’ for Gentrification
One of the fallacies of proposals to limit gentrification is the idea that promoting more development in cities leads to more affordable housing. Stratified markets mean this is not a simply “supply and demand” problem.
Read more...The Power Of Nightmares 3: The Shadows In The Cave (BBC-2004)
Osama Bin Laden’s cave — and Plato’s.
Read more...What Are the Only 3 States That Score Higher Than a D+ in the Corruption Index?
The highest grade (the least corruption) goes to Alaska: C.
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 2: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
Introducing the second part of the must-see series by Adam Curtis.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
An Adam Curtis documentary on the similarities between the politics of neo-conservatives, and the politics of Islamist radicals.
Read more...Angling for Dollars: A Review of Akerlof and Shiller’s Phishing for Phools
A fine stocking stuffer. And I’m not phishing!
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