Tsipras Accepts Most Creditor Terms as Merkel Insists on Referendum
Post-bailout expiration dynamics are likely to produce even worse outcomes for Greece than it had on offer from the creditors last month.
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Affordable Housing Crisis Grows Across the Country as Apartment Rents Skyrocket
An update on where and how tenants are being squeezed by rising rents versus stagnant to low wage growth.
Read more...The Standard Definition of Money is in Error
Yves here. This post is elegant in the way it challenges the standard (sloppy) definitions of money. Even if you don’t agree, it will force you to think and articulate why you don’t agree (hopefully in a rigorous manner).
Read more...How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect – the Example of ASCO Fearing “Biting the Hand that Feeds You”
Ancien regime levels of corruption wherever you look.
Read more...Detroit: A Case Study of Oligarchs and Vigilantes Taking Over Public Safety in a Big City
In Detroit, safety is a privilege enjoyed by the white and wealthy.
Read more...Who was Alexander Hamilton? Militarism, High Finance and Checking the Democracy.
Alexander Hamilton, often held up by liberals as the most admirable Founding Father, was not the man you probably thought he was.
Read more...The Bankruptcy of America’s Elites
Why America’s elites have failed.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Armed Violence in the Homeland
If you worry about safety, stop fretting about terrorists and focus on the nasty intersection of rising social stress and widespread gun ownership.
Read more...The Decline and Fall of American Public Space as Shown in #BlackLivesMatter Tweets
Looking at the backgrounds of #BlackLivesMatter images shows America’s decaying infrastructure.
Read more...Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Rollout Speech: The S.S. Clinton Sails From Roosevelt Island in New York Harbor
A close reading of Clinton’s speech, comparing it to FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech (sadly, to Clinton’s disadvantage).
Read more...Michael Hoexter: The Climate (and Climate Justice!) Movement Cannot Remain a Genteel Environmentalist Movement
Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Bill Black: Roger Cohen Laments his Inadequate Schadenfreude Because the Greeks Don’t Suffer Enough
Bill Black shreds a remarkably rancid anti-Greek screed.
Read more...Why the Consensus Process Has a Poor Track Record in Activist Movements
Consensus decision-making, a process in which groups come to agreement without voting, has been a central feature of direct action movements for nearly 40 years. It has also not worked very well.
Read more...Even Affluent American Strongly Support Higher Taxes on the Rich
As they have for decades, Americans poll in favor of higher taxes on top earners.
Read more...Thanks for Your Helpful Responses to Our Call to Action
We thank readers for their considerable, valuable input on a recent call to action and discuss how we plan to use their ideas.
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