Culture Clash: What 14 Million Images Tell Us About Times A-Changin’
An effort to track culture changes over time via diversity of coiffure and attire….but the data has some not-acknowledged biases.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Reflections on the War on Work as a War on Workers
Recalling what good union jobs once meant for workers and communities and describing some damage done by the war on labor
Read more...Capitalism, Mass Anger, and 2024 Elections
More and more, officials are using anger as an excuse of censorship and arrests. Is capitalism the root? And is there actually “mass anger”?
Read more...Lina Khan’s FTC Gears Up to Go After Algorithmic Black Boxes Governing Workers’ Lives, but It Might Be Running Out of Time
A closer look at “algorithmic wage discrimination” used at gig companies (and increasingly across all industries), one potential tool to stop it, and how the FTC is zeroing in on the practice.
Read more...The Problem with Pronatalism: Pushing Baby Booms to Boost Economic Growth Amounts to a Ponzi Scheme
Schemes to boost birth rates to bolster growth are generally ineffective and more important, miss the real problem.
Read more...Democrats’ VP Choice Tim Walz Has a History of Working on the Side of Monied Interests Against Workers
Walz’s folksy persona helps mask standard neoliberal positions, and Minnesota workers paid the price.
Read more...What’s Wrong and Right with Project 2025
Why the Project 2025 dog’s breakfast of proposals bears watching.
Read more...Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,’ Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof
Hospitals in several states are partnering with a private equity-backed company to offer combined emergency and urgent care in a single building. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.
Read more...Climate Change: Can One Specific Example Counter the Denialists?
A look at climate change impacts, recent and prospective, in coastal Georgia. Can evidence like this change some stubborn minds?
Read more...Little Free Library’s Not-So-Little Commitment to Getting the Word Out
Little Free Library’s book-sharing boxes promote literacy and strengthen communities.
Read more...‘Guilty of Genocide’: 135 Congress Members Boycott Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress
The US Congress stands shoulder to shoulder with war criminal Netanyahu, even with more dissent than ever.
Read more...More Guns, Less Butter: How Will the EU Wed Austerity to Militarization?
Will Euro defense bonds be the answer?
Read more...US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.
Read more...Wall Street Journal on Americans Being Less Willing to Have Children
The Journal gives a largely sympathetic account of why fewer are having children, even as it may be going easy on cost pressures.
Read more...Where’s the Death Data on Heat, Wildfire Smoke, and Other Climate Extremes?
Knowing the true human toll resulting from soaring temperatures might help jolt the nation into action on climate change sooner and lessen the mitigation and resilience we will need.
Read more...