US Affordable Housing Policy Works for Wall Street and Rich Developers, Not Renters
Current policy doesn’t provide affordable housing very well but does a good job of lining the pockets of real estate interests.
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The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has been well-earned.
Read more...Apple’s “Crush” Ad, Rentierism, and the End of Capitalism?
Apple’s dystopian ode to rentierism.
Read more...Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...Trump Promises to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy − But It Didn’t Work Then and Is Less Likely to Do So Now
A clinical look at the viability of Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation plan.
Read more...‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time
“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.
Read more...The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap
More and more EU voters are rejecting the Union, as some like to call it. Economic malaise looks to be a big reason why.
Read more...Taxing Income from Wealth Can Always Raise More Money Than a Wealth Tax
Why a wealth tax is not all it is cracked up to be, but a well-designed income tax can do a fine job of curtailing wealth disparity.
Read more...“The True Shocking Driver of Crime in America”
A theory of crime, which while it has some explanatory power, weirdly omits white collar crime.
Read more...Stasi in the West
Governments across the West are enacting more draconian measures to silence all criticism and are increasingly asking citizens to inform on one another.
Read more...With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
Read more...The Wars Come Home
Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts.
Read more...Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins
“I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice,” William Lloyd Garrison once said. “On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation.”
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