What the April 15 Emerson Democratic Primary Poll Says About Emerson and Sanders
It’s 2016 all over again, as the press and analysts go to unusual lengths to ignore Sanders’ gains.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...The Great Deformation: Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable
Recent work on iinequality by Lance Taylor says this will be a particularly hard problem to solve.
Read more...A Way-Too-Early Look at Bernie Sanders’ VP Choices
A review of Sanders’ options…..
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...Making American Schools Less Great Again
An on-the-ground report from a teacher in Beverton on how the war on schools’ funding is leading teachers to strike.
Read more...The Anti-Sanders Press Influenced the 2016 Primary. Will It Do the Same Again?
Can Sanders supporters counter a hostile media?
Read more...Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy
Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
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...A Veblen Moment: Thorstein Veblen’s Lessons from the First Gilded Age Even More Relevant Today
Veblen was early and accurate about the behaviors and dangers of the super rich. Tthe advanced world is re-living his warnings.
Read more...Sacramento Teacher Strike Is a Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere
Sacramento teachers are threatening to strike after the district plans to renege on an agreement it signed in December 2017.
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...Bill Black: Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”
Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
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.
Read more...3 Questions That ‘Created Havoc’ in Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education
Betty DeVos has trouble answering questions on charter school fraud. Quelle surprise!
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