Our Politico Story on Why Clinton Does Not Deserve the Sanders Vote
Clinton is not interested in representing Sanders voters. They’ve gotten the memo and are acting accordingly
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Hoisted From Comments: Neoliberalism Tearing Societies Apart
The true destructiveness of neoliberalism is becoming more and more apparent.
Read more...Refinancing is Dead: A Generation of Hard Times Will Continue Until Secular Real Wages Improve
Real gains by average Americans won’t come financing gimmicks but from real growth in wages. And no one in authority seems willing to provide them.
Read more...Is America Committing Slow-Motion Suicide? A Look at the Decline of CUNY
The decline of CUNY as evidence that the superrich are killing the rest of us through a slow process of attrition
Read more...Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin: Corporate Fraud With a Body Count
Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Americans Increasingly Angry With Corporate Desertions via Tax Inversions
Tax inversions damage the already low credibility of Corporate America.
Read more...The 7 Biggest Myths and Lies About Social Security
An antidote to Peterson Foundation anti-Social Security Kool Aid.
Read more...Why US Cities Are Segregated by Race: New Evidence on the Role of ‘White Flight’
Segregation started earlier in the US than most studies assume.
Read more...How the Democratic Party Became Undemocratic: The History of the Superdelagates
The origin of how the Democratic party made sure its elites remained firmly in charge.
Read more...A Global Marshall Plan for Joblessness?
Time for a Marshall Plan for unemployment: no workfare, no bullshit jobs, no compulsory work, no digging holes. Start with a Green New Deal.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Democrat Hedge Fund Investors Underwrite Political Networks to Privatize K-12 Public Education
Who says Democrats and Wall Street don’t get along? Hedge funds promote a war on teachers’ unions to boost school privatizations.
Read more...Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’
Military-style policing gets another boost, this with targeting immigrants as the pretext.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...