Gaius Publius: The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein epitomized the Democratic party elite. And there is remarkably little willingness to acknowledge that fact.
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40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
Read more...Corruption Uncertainty and Corporate Practices
evidence suggests that while foreign-controlled firms are unaffected by the corruption uncertainty factor, domestic firms decrease investments significantly when uncertainty about corruption practices increases.
Read more...In Praise of Public Libraries
Why libraries are popular today, and how they have helped me (with two Internet incidents)
Read more...If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business
The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...Measuring Racial Segregation in Urban Consumption Using Online Activity
We use restaurant reviews posted to Yelp to study segregation of consumption along racial and ethnic lines in New York City
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching
In the case of the American South, residential segregation did not allow the black community to insulate itself from interracial violence.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Read more...Bismarck’s Health insurance And Its Impact on Mortality
The model for today’s health insurance systems was Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in the German Empire in 1884. That’s 1884.
Read more...What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm
Why the commons paradigm offers an important and practical lens for re-imagining politics, governance and law.
Read more...Cheap Sexism and Intellectual Dishonesty about Marriage
A mini-tour of right wing phantasmagora about how oversexed men and insufficiently chaste women are the ruination of the economy.
Read more...The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...Bill Black: Marriage and the Jobs Guarantee
Conservatives are trying to blame low rates of marriage among the young on anything but the state of the economy and the job market.
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
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