Is America Committing Slow-Motion Suicide? A Look at the Decline of CUNY
The decline of CUNY as evidence that the superrich are killing the rest of us through a slow process of attrition
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Parents, Debate Is the Right Competitive Sport for Your Child!
The virtues of debate, and debate’s role in citizenship.
Read more...Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin: Corporate Fraud With a Body Count
Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Americans Increasingly Angry With Corporate Desertions via Tax Inversions
Tax inversions damage the already low credibility of Corporate America.
Read more...The 7 Biggest Myths and Lies About Social Security
An antidote to Peterson Foundation anti-Social Security Kool Aid.
Read more...Why US Cities Are Segregated by Race: New Evidence on the Role of ‘White Flight’
Segregation started earlier in the US than most studies assume.
Read more...How the Democratic Party Became Undemocratic: The History of the Superdelagates
The origin of how the Democratic party made sure its elites remained firmly in charge.
Read more...Bill Black: Greg Mankiw’s Unprincipled Economics Indoctrination
Exposing Greg Mankiw’s basic economics textbook as an exercise in dogma.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: “Obama’s Hiroshima Visit Is Shaping Up To Be a PR Disaster”
Our instinct that Obama’s “look forward, not back” approach to his Hiroshima visit would not go over well in Japan is panning out.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
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