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Koch Brothers’ Culture Grab: Latest Donation, to Western Carolina University, for “Center of Study of Free Enterprise” Despite Faculty Vote “No”

How the Koch Brothers are using educational purchases, um, donations, to make cultural norms even more business-friendly.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on January 12, 2016 by Yves Smith.

The Anglo-Saxon Hide, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and the 35 Hour Work Week

How the Doomsday book,and the unit of assessment called the “hide,” suggest that medieval laborers had very civilized work weeks.

This entry was posted in Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Social policy, The dismal science on January 8, 2016 by Yves Smith.

Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?

How fraud and mistreatment of students are embedded in the charter school system.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Guest Post, Social policy, Social values on January 6, 2016 by Yves Smith.

Michael Olenick: The Lesson of Newtown – Time to Charge for the True Cost of Gun Ownership

Yves here. The headline of an article at NBC says it all: Small-Bore? President Obama’s Actions on Guns Make Marginal Changes. Michael Olenick proposed a more effective approach…of a type that curiously has been absent from proposals on how to curb gun ownership. This post first ran on December 17, 2012 By Michael Olenick, a […]

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on January 6, 2016 by Yves Smith.

The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete

Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?

Job Guarantee Versus Basic Income Guarantee

A lively and well-informed debate on the merits of a job guarantee versus a basic income guarantee.

5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015

It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Privatization, Social policy, Social values on December 31, 2015 by Yves Smith.

Clinton, Sanders, and the “Progressive Give-Up” Formula (with Clinton’s Warning of a “Grand Bargain” to Come)

Clinton, Sanders, and days of Mondale past.

This entry was posted in Politics, Social policy, Taxes on December 28, 2015 by Lambert Strether.

Work, Play, and Social Artifacts Under the Tree

Model railroading as work and play.

This entry was posted in Macroeconomic policy, Social policy, Social values on December 27, 2015 by Lambert Strether.

“Summer” Rerun: “Why America Will Need Some Elements of a Welfare State”

In 2007, the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Wolf concluded that America needed some form of a welfare state. His argument is as valid now as then. Yet it is hard to imagine that anyone would make it now, particularly in light of the effort of soi-disant liberals to pretend that Obamacare insurance policies bear any resemblance to “universal health care”.

Bill Moyers: The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!

How citizens must fight plutocrats if they are to have any hope of preserving rule by the people.

White America’s Toxic Ignorance: Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the Real Privilege That Goes Unspoken

The fact that Scalia argues against affirmative action comes close to serving as proof that it is sound policy, or at least less bad than the alternatives.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values on December 17, 2015 by Yves Smith.