The Who and Why Behind the Push to Gut Child Labor Laws
“The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.” — Lewis Hine, 1908
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The Presidential Campaign of Convict 9653
Eugene Debs, the socialist who ran for President despite being a convict times two, is again in the spotlight.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Do We Trash the Planet or Have Things We Value, Like the NHS? That Is the Question
An examination of the economic law that says as the private sector improves productivity by destroying the planet and creating awful jobs, what’s left of the public sector must do the same.
Read more...Social Security May Be Failing Well Over a Million People With Disabilities – And COVID-19 Is Making the Problem Worse
Research suggests that well over 1 million people with disabilities are not getting the assistance they need, and even those who receive benefits are likely not getting enough.
Read more...About That Bipartisanship…
What kind of bipartisanship do we want? Smooth-as-silk to grow our Pentagon and Praetorian Guard? Or disruptive to fight against all that?
Read more...Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
Read more...For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...Freida Berrigan: 90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock seems to be fading….when the urgency is high.
Read more...Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?
In which the Democrats show their true colors as vicious discipliniarians.
Read more...The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…
Read more...Your Political Rivals Aren’t as Bad as You Think – Here’s How Misunderstandings Amplify Hostility
Some ideas for how to dial down your political hostility.
Read more...The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Helps Keep the Student Loan Debt Crisis Going
Money made off the backs of students goes back into nonprofits to push college “access” and awareness of financial options.
Read more...“Biden’s Awkward Democracy Summit”
The US trying even harder to tout the virtues of its ideas of democracy is not winning friends or influencing people.
Read more...How Debt Dynamics Polarize Economic and Political Power
An overview from Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity, which extends his analysis of how debt creates an entrenched elite.
Read more...Gender Reveal… It’s Brands!
On gender proliferation.
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