Financial Crises as Drivers of Populism: A New Channel
Financial crises hurt the middle class, reducing their support for the status quo in favor of insurgent, aka populist, candidates.
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Wealth of Two Nations: The US Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
Severe racial differences in initial conditions after Emancipation have contributed greatly to today’s stalled progress in closing the racial wealth gap.
Read more...Privacy in the Wake of Dobbs: How Safe Are Your Medical Records and Digital Data If Prosecutors or Bounty Hunters from No-Choice States Come Knocking?
To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...“Letter to My Fiercest Abortion Opponent”
Yves here. This personal abortion account is from a known reader and is accurate. By Jane Doe Dear person who believes abortion is murder, I write to explain why I don’t, hoping you will listen and understand. I accept I cannot persuade you. I understand your beliefs; I want you to understand mine. We Americans […]
Read more...How Greedy Corporations Fuel Inflation
How companies are adding to inflationary pressures by increasing prices when not warranted by costs.
Read more...What Does Capitalism Repress? A Jungian Perspective.
Who or what does capitailsm serve?
Read more...Gun Money Predicts Congressional Voting Better Than Party Alone
An analysis of gun lobby contributions to Republicans and Democrats
Read more...Primaries Are Getting More Crowded with Candidates, and That’s Good News for Extremists and Bad News for Voters
Mainstream politicians and voters are concerned that extremists are gaining ground. Maybe they should focus on the disease, not the sympoms.
Read more...California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed?
The fact that California is having to consider making insulin to get around price grifing show the depth of disease in our health care system.
Read more...Our Country Is Trading Children’s Lives for Guns
Gun culture is fed by gun-makers and the gun lobby, the right-wing media and Hollywood. Our children are paying the price.
Read more...The Only Possible Solution to School Shootings (and You Can Get It Here)
Turning to a tried and true protection against shootings…..
Read more...Ro Khanna: ‘Freedom’ Has Been Hijacked by the Right. Let’s Take It Back
Is it too late for the left to redefine and own libertarian-possessed words like freedom?
Read more...Why Is America Polarized? The Answer May Surprise You
America is divided against itself as never before. Some thoughts as to why.
Read more...The Pandemic Isn’t Over Until It’s Over for Everyone
We could choose otherwise than to make the most vulnerable bear the cost of an ongoing pandemic by rushing to declare it over.
Read more...Whither Hegemony? Prof. Wen Tiejun Foreword to Michael Hudson’s The Destiny of Civilization
The development and future of America’s hegemony is a major focus of Michael Hudson’s new book, The Destiny of Civilization.
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