The Assisted Dying Debate Is Really About How We Treat the Living
A recent push to legalize assisted dying in France obscures more fundamental problems that plague end-of-life care.
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Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Read more...The Move Toward a Four-Day Workweek Obscures Low Pay
Yves here. Like author Sonali Kolhatkar, your humble blogger has been skeptical of a four day, or better yet, 32 hour workweek without an increase in worker compensation. By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that […]
Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Read more...Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls
Sales of Crusade Bulls, a form of indulgence that Spain preserved after they were in decline elsehwere, may shed light on other social issues
Read more...Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Read more...Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?
Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight
Read more...‘Market Fundamentalism’ Is an Obstacle to Progress
Why market cheerleaders are bad for you.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Now Significant Among the Young
The US cancer of deaths of despair has progressed from less educated middle aged whites to the young of all stripes.
Read more...As More Hospitals Create Police Forces, Critics Warn of Pitfalls
More American exceptionalism: cops maintaining order in hosptials.
Read more...Yellow Fever in Slave-Owning New Orleans and Covid Today: Symbolic v. Social Capital
Then and now: Immunity, whether real or imagined, had serious implications. It affected where people worked, what they earned, where they lived, and with whom they dealt.
Read more...A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
Big employers like McDonalds have been caught illegally employing children. Some state want to regulize that. But is this just a GOP affair?
Read more...Respectful Persuasion Is a Relay Race, Not a Solo Sprint – 3 Keys to Putting It in Practice
Can stereotypically pushy and intolerant American learn to rely a bit more on persuasion?
Read more...Covid: The Poor People’s Pandemic
Liz Theoharis, co-chair of Poor People’s Campaign, indicts how Biden is abusing the needy by ending pandemic emergency programs.
Read more...“In the Coronation, Britain’s Ruling Class Will Cast Its Dark Spell on Millions”
Do the Royals still have this sway? “Charles’ coronation will encourage millions to keep marching to the beat of Britain’s posh boys”
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