Covid-19 as yet another opporutnity for elite prejudice.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Waiting for “Rooseveltian Relief”: An Oversimplified Framework for the Employment Situation
“Nothing fundamental will change.” –Joe Biden
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID-19 and re-opening, Biden and Cllinton, Biden and platitudes, DSA and Biden, Cuomo and nursing homes, “Rooseveltian” Dems, battery metals, meat shortages, tanker rates, manufacturing, confidence, beekeeping, Bates Motel, the function of money (1890), Oxford comma
Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
The Coronavirus stress test has laid bare a market that is broken, lacking the ability to attend to the public health at a time of desperate need and with a government unwilling — in some ways unable — to force it to do so.
Coronavirus Magical Thinking, US Style: Contact Tracing Versus Masks
With bad coronavirus outcomes, America seems set on continuing to do dumb things.
Public Schools Collapsing into a Zoom Heap
The true cost of shuttered schools.
Surgical Masks: From Protection to Fashion?
A random walk through the world of masks.
Neoliberalism Is Over. Welcome to the Era of Neo-Illiberalism!
Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?
Tom Ferguson: Big Business Takes Cash as Workers Laid Off, States and Cities Go Bust
Tom Ferguson and Paul Jay discuss how Democrats and Republicans distaste for accountability by finance and big corporations is playing out in the coronacrisis
Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism
Why unemployment is a feature of capitalism.
From Juanita Broaddrick to Tara Reade: In Forty Years Has Nothing Changed at All?
Remember Juanita Broaddrick? The fact that you probably don’t speaks volumes about our political culture.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19, Biden (virtual rally debacle, youth vote, Veepstakes), Trump’s failure, the end of canvassing?, DSA, horrid employment numbers (with class dimension), containers, rail, sharing economy, Sephora, Rent the Runway, Zoom, llamas and antibodies, West Wing
