New York Rent Strikes During the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza
The hard-fought rent battles during and after the Spanish flu make modern protests look tame.
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The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
The inescapable dilemma facing social democracy
Read more...Because Culture Matters, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdowns
Quelle surprise! Local norms play a meaningful role in Covid-19 transmission, which has implications for how to end lockdowns.
Read more...A Way To Make COVID-19 College Furloughs More Fair
Looking at how to cope with the college and university funding crisis.
Read more...Waiting for “Rooseveltian Relief”: An Oversimplified Framework for the Employment Situation
“Nothing fundamental will change.” –Joe Biden
Read more...Surgical Masks: From Protection to Fashion?
A random walk through the world of masks.
Read more...In Quest of the May Day Strikes
A round-up of May Day strike coverage.
Read more...Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
Read more...Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?
Biden is feeling enough heat about the Tara Reade rape accusation that he’s appearing on Morning Joe today. But can he make the story go away?
Read more...The Price of Meat
Meat and the rights of meatpackers have come to the fore.
Read more...Inequality and the Coronavirus: Destroying American Society From the Top Down
Coronavirus is exposing the severity of inequality in the US, particulary limited access to health care and the health costs of poverty.
Read more...Mutual Aid Volunteers Are Mobilizing to Help the Most Vulnerable Communities to Deal With Coronavirus
How the DSA and other groups are providing coronavirus relief.
Read more...#DemExit Now: How the Democratic Party Cheated Bernie Sanders Out of the Nomination
How the Dems played dirty with Sanders.
Read more...The New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?
Read more...CSA: How to Support Local Farmers as Restaurants and Farmers Markets Close
As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them.
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