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, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
Read more...What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...“Liberal” economists still embrace the dominant pseudo-Keynesian orthodoxy despite its failure in the financial crisis and its role in increasing inequality.
Read more...A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
Read more...The costs of Bill Clinton’s mass incarceration policies are even higher than you thought.
Read more...Bill Clinton repeats urban legends to defend his crime bill, which Hillary advocated, that lead to the mass incarceration of blacks.
Read more...Why exhorting poor people to marry more often is right wing propaganda in lieu of real policies to address poverty.
Read more...How Congress gave the President a blank check for never-ending war.
Read more...Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, addresses what Paul Ryan conveniently left out.
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