Politicization of Sports and Sportization of Politics: A Global Dangerous Trend
Why the convergence of sports and political behaviors is bad for each.
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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
The infamous HAMP program, which the Administration revised so many times on the fly as to give incompetent and mendacious mortgage servicers air cover for failing to modify mortgages, at least had a stealth purpose. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said to the SIGTARP’s Neil Barofsky, it was to foam the runway for banks by […]
Read more...Lessons about White Privilege, Social Liberal Backlash, and Trump 2.0
Among social (and not economic) liberals, White privilege lessons may increase beliefs that poor White people have failed to take advantage of their racial privilege—leading to negative social evaluations.
Read more...Dying on the Job: How Workers Get Hurt When Businesses Keep Deadly Secrets
OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
Read more...Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
MappingBack can support Indigenous perspectives on territories and resources through spatial representations
Read more...Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism
A campus debate over free speech illustrates how the neoliberal world view is accepted by people who think they oppose it.
Read more...How Your Employer Uses Perks Like Wellness Programs, Phones and Free Food to Control Your Life
Just as Henry Ford sought to transform auto workers through a generous though invasive profit-sharing program, today’s employers also use perks to influence our behavior in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Read more...McKinsey: Doing God’s Work in Puerto Rico
McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...Mourning Notre Dame
A few sad words about the loss of Notre Dame.
Read more...How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Read more...Sanders Takes the Campaign Against CAP to Eleven
Sanders takes off his gloves.
Read more...Where Are All the Bugs Going and What Can I Do About It?
Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...The Return of la Marine
Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
Read more...New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
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