Gaius Publius: “You Broke It, You Bought It” – A Sanders Activist Challenges Clinton Supporters
Clinton’s hard move to the right is causing some consternation among bona fide progressives. But what will they do about it?
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Care Work as the Work of the Future
Economists despair about the impact of technology on jobs. They underestimate the need for care work, as in services for the young and aged.
Read more...How WalMart Makes You Pay for Its (Lack of) Policing
Yet another WalMart scam….
Read more...The Elite “Let Them Eat Education” Fallacy
Debunking the idea that better education is an adequate remedy for inequality and high unemployment.
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman Wants A “Center-Left” Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths
Thomas Friedman has managed to outdo himself on the downside.
Read more...Emergy (with an “m”) and Environmental Accounting for Maine’s Landfill
Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Why this Job Market is Still Terrible: The Politically Incorrect Numbers Everyone is Hushing up
For individuals, the job market has barely improved since the Great Recession.
Read more...Trumpbusters: Who You Gonna Call?
Is Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein a Trumpbuster?
Read more...How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture
How political authority has legitimated and promoted the questionable goal of competitiveness.
Read more...Contradictions at the Kitchen Table: Sanders, Obama, and Clinton at the Democratic National Convention
The power imbalance between labor and capital, as revealed by Presidential speeches at the Democrat National Convention.
Read more...The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed
Yves here. Please welcome guest blogger #SlayTheSmaugs. For those of you who have neither read The Hobbit nor seen the movies, “Smaug” is probably a meaningless word. In The Hobbit, Smaug is a massive and vicious dragon. He sits on a pile of gold and jewels that would bury a football stadium’s grass several feet […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: Two Ways of Looking at a Plagiarism
Trust me, this post on Melania Trump’s plagiarism does not go where you expect it to go.
Read more...What Next for the EU?
An informative, high-level overview of how the EU got to where it is now, its internal contradictions, and the prospects for resolving them.
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...How California Targets Poor People of Color for Profit
California cities take a page from the Ferguson playbook: targeting poor minority group members people for fines, in this case traffic fines.
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