Precarity: A Political Problem
‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
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The Lords and Ladies of Discipline: An Interview with Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
Read more...Thoughts on Warren, Sanders and the Convention: Warren’s Choice?
Unpacking the implications of the Warren attack on Sanders.
Read more...Sex Workers Can Tell You Why Sex Work Is Work – Speak to Them
Combatting mispercptions about sex work, paritcularly the need for better work condiions.
Read more...How Climate Change Influenced Australia’s Unprecedented Fires
Looking harder at the Australia and California fires.
Read more...Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Read more...UN’s Warning that Gaza Will Not Be a “Liveable Place” by 2020 Has Been Realised
The primary cause of this ‘unliveable’ environment is a highly restrictive Israeli blockade, now in its 13th year, which has reduced Gaza to the point of ‘systemic collapse’.
Read more...PolitiFact Wrongly Lets Biden Off the Hook: The Truth About Social Security Cuts
Going after yet another Biden lie.
Read more...Homeless Californians Adapt to Camp Sweeps and ‘The Caltrans Shuffle’
A vignette from a homeless encampment.
Read more...Trump and the Mad Negotiator Approach
Looking at how Trump approaches negotiations and seeing whether that explains other behaviors.
Read more...A Theory or Two of These Grim Times
A theory about why things are a mess.
Read more...As Rural Americans Struggle for Health Care Access, Insurers May Be Making Things Worse
How health insurers discriminate against rural communities.
Read more...The Green New Deal as an Anti-Neoliberal Program
On the positive effects of a Green New Deal.
Read more...A National Disgrace’: Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands
While you were distracted by impeachment theatrics, Trump creates more obstacles to keeping Social Security disability benefits
Read more...Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how companies like Google and their tech brethren stampede over all of us.
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