#MeToo Whistleblowing Is Upending Century-Old Legal Precedent Demanding Loyalty to the Boss
Why whistleblowing is a recent development.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
France, Inequality, the Yellow Vests, and the Social Elevator
Redistribution through taxes and social transfers is not sufficient to curb the inequality in opportunity, which is mostly linked to the educational system and perpetuates economic and social situations from one generation to the next.
Read more...Has America Always Embraced Capitalism?
History shows that capitalism isn’t natural or normal, strengthening the belief that we can create something better.
Read more...Can Shareholder Activism Tame the Financial System?
Is shareholder activism capable of achieving lasting change?
Read more...Who Is Really A Socialist?
Identifying some core “socialist” views.
Read more...Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths.
Read more...How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility
Tracing how neoliberalism has corroded social values.
Read more...AOC and Ed Markey Introduce Green New Deal Resolution (and Let’s Remember It’s a DEAL)
The “climate” and “justice” sides of the Green New Deal.
Read more...Take One Leave One – A New Way to Help the Homeless
Homelessness needs political solutions. But as temperatures plummet, communities are also finding a new way to both immediately practically help, and connect with, homeless people.
Read more...Let’s Say I Wanted to Escape Climate Change. Where Should I Go?
One expert says he gets versions of this question almost daily — usually from “people at big institutional real estate funds, rich people who want to buy land or already own land, or survivalist types.”
Read more...How Howard Thurman Met Gandhi and Brought Nonviolence to the Civil Rights Movement
Howard Thurman demonstrates how individuals can have great influence on social movements.
Read more...Brexit’s Primitive Passions Could Bring Havoc to Ireland – and Far Beyond
Brexit is revealing the bad side of some Brits.
Read more...Kamala Harris, Opportunist to the Core: Launches Prez Bid on MLK Day, Since She Has to Remind People She’s Black After Criminalizing Truancy, Keeping CA Prison Rolls Up to Provide Cheap Labor; Sends Tone-Deaf, Narcissistic Campaign E-mail
Kamala Harris seems to assume that voters are easy marks.
Read more...How Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter School Agenda
Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools.
Read more...France’s Great Debate
One in two French citizens wants to participate in Macron’s Great Debate across France. High stakes for Macron and French democracy.
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