Mark Blyth and Jeffrey Sommers: Austerity – A Dangerous Idea Returns
Why more austerity is one of the worst possible responses to the pandemic….yet the US is seeing even more of it.
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The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative
Will the disruption of Covid-19 deal a major blow to market ideology?
Read more...Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”
How coronavirus is being used to advance the anti- public-education agenda
Read more...Covid-19: Where From? Why Now?
Examining theories about Covid-19 that blame its start on farming. But which kind of farming?
Read more...Coronavirus: A Theory of Incompetence
Coronavirus has shredded the last vestiges of the belief that America was well run. How did we get here?
Read more...AirBnB Has Been Rocked by COVID-19. Do We Really Want To See It Recover?
AirBnB is a flagrant rule-breaking disruptor. Is it worth it to try to bring it to heel now, or is it beyond redemption?
Read more...The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
A detailed look at the Green Deal: bold goals, with a shortage of money, transition plans, and social democracy.
Read more...Local Covid-19 Report and Infection Modeling
More efforts to understand how efforts to contain Covid-19 might or might not be working.
Read more...Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End: How My Dad Predicted the Decline of America
This should be a time for a genuinely new approach, one fit for a world of rising disruption and disaster, one that would define a new, more democratic, less bellicose America.
Read more...Radical Imagination: Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works
Michael Hudson rings the changes on some of his favorite themes: the logic of ancient debt jubilees. and the role of finance in contemporary rent extraction.
Read more...Tax Justice and Modern Monetary Theory – A Guide
Does Modern Monetary Theory take tax justice for granted?
Read more...Why COVID-19 Will Strain the Safety Net for Homeless Vets to the Breaking Point
While the COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented, the slapdash response underscores how fragile the safety net for America’s homeless really is.
Read more...The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies
Why you should hate the coronavirus “stimulus” bill.
Read more...Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy: Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
Why preserving (big) corporate profits will not bail out the economy.
Read more...Can the Intra-Party Rift Be Healed, At Least For Now? Or Must the Fight Be Fought in 2020?
Is the Democratic Party redeemable?
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