Surprise: The 1% Is Overrepresented in the Ivy League
Ivy League and other elite colleges have become even more economically exclusive.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Is Skynet Really Coming After Jobs?
An Elon Musk tweet prompts a new round of debate over the risk of AI to jobs and social stability.
Read more...Gaius Publius: There Is No “Political Center” in Modern America
Debunking a political fiction that guides Democratic party thinking and messaging.
Read more...Concrete Material Benefits: “Better Deal” vs. “People’s Platform”
“This is why we can’t have nice things” vs. “This is why you may have slightly better things.”
Read more...Struggling but Stuck in Rural America
The Wall Street Journal describes why it’s so hard to escape struggling rural towns. Too bad its readers will hear none of it.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: The “Success Sequence” Is About Cultural Beefs Not Poverty
Debunking a pet conservative meme about the need to have a family to get out of poverty.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: Nordic Socialism Is Realer Than You Think
Yes, Virginia, Nordic countries really are socialist success stories.
Read more...People Voted Communist Because…
Italy had the largest communist party in Western Europe. Why did ordinary people vote communist? What did they believe in?
Read more...The Minefield of Historical Communism
What does the experience of historical communism imply about modern politics and about possibilities in the future?
Read more...Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?
Read more...A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland
Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them.
Read more...Rising from the Ashes, a Buffalo Suburb Ends its Dependence on Coal
Environmental, labour, and community efforts meshed in working-class Tonawanda to create plan for future after its coal-fired plant closed.
Read more...Poverty, Crime and Causality
A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
Read more...Bill Black: Those to Blame for the Grenfell Fire Victims Include Tony Blair
The victims of Grenfell were condemned to death by an ideology and a rejection of science and the value of human life that captured the Tories, Lib-Dems, and “New Labor.”
Read more...Lee Camp: Here’s Why There Is No Legitimate Healthcare Debate In This Country
A righteous rant about why the way Americans have been propagandized to think about healthcare is a travesty.
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