Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
An overview of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth explains the core findings of MMT. and how debt hysteria serves the rich, not the public.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
The Making of the MAGA Right
As the old baseball saying goes, sometimes “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.” This became especially true since Curt Flood opened the floodgates to free agency more than fifty years ago when he refused to be treated as disposable property by the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, one August A. Busch, Jr. […]
Read more...“European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
Citizens in EU states have been rebelling against social program cuts, like pension reforms. Are changes in the retirement age necessary?
Read more...“NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs
Spanberger in Virginia and Sherrill in New Jersey are part of the party’s spook network pushing the ratchet wheel ever rightward.
Read more...SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
The biggest anti-hunger program in the U.S. is set to lose over $187 billion between now and 2034.
Read more...Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP
Part the First: Financial Stability and Climate Instability. Or, could a climate-related shock trigger a recession? This is a question that could be asked only by an economist, or two, as in Advancing research on financial stability and climate-related financial risk, an editorial last week in Science: Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, […]
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
The ideological currents behind U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s war on Palestine are the same: Yoram Hazony’s neo-nationalism
Read more...The ‘Supercenter’ Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption − and Waste
To confirm prejudices some of you may habor: supercenters are bad! No wonder retailers love the format.
Read more...Russia’s Choices as It Brings Ukraine to the Brink with Electricity War, Takes Pokrovsk
Even with Russia’s domination undeniable as its electricity attacks turn off power all over Ukraine, Russia still has complex choices to make.
Read more...Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm
The casual US celebration of violence runs into the reality that those required to inflict it regularly suffer deep inner damage.
Read more...Coffee Break: Wither Sport, Unwellness, Chimpanzee Metacognition, The Sokal Hoax, and a Political Temblor
Part the First: Wither Sport in This Modern World? The World Series ended last week with two games for the ages. These were the only MLB baseball games I watched all season, and as a baseball man of the old school, I picked well. Both games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue […]
Read more...Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change
The soaring costs of city life appear to be sending urban voters toward progressive leaders who promise relief, both in the U.S. and globally.
Read more...Tracing a Line Between Israeli Pager Attacks and Ukraine Collapse to the Tennessee Munitions Factory Explosion that Killed 16 Workers in an Impoverished Region of the U.S.
The so-called ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ goes up in smoke.
Read more...Trump’s Deportations Are Causing Farm Labor Issues. He Hasn’t Presented a Viable, Long-Term Solution.
Trump has cast the H-2A program as a quick help for farmers. At the same time, the program has been suspended during the government shutdown, which could cause production problems.
Read more...