The 7 Biggest Myths and Lies About Social Security
An antidote to Peterson Foundation anti-Social Security Kool Aid.
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Why US Cities Are Segregated by Race: New Evidence on the Role of ‘White Flight’
Segregation started earlier in the US than most studies assume.
Read more...How the Democratic Party Became Undemocratic: The History of the Superdelagates
The origin of how the Democratic party made sure its elites remained firmly in charge.
Read more...Bill Black: Greg Mankiw’s Unprincipled Economics Indoctrination
Exposing Greg Mankiw’s basic economics textbook as an exercise in dogma.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: “Obama’s Hiroshima Visit Is Shaping Up To Be a PR Disaster”
Our instinct that Obama’s “look forward, not back” approach to his Hiroshima visit would not go over well in Japan is panning out.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...Will Clinton Attempt to Bring Sanders Supporters into the Democratic Fold?
“Sanders will be ignored and shunned.” Will be? This has been the game from the outset.
Read more...How the New York Times Helped Hillary Hide the Hawk
Hillary Clinton’s macho, um, muscular stance in foreign affairs has delivered a series of disasters. Yet she remains a true believer in the idea that the US is and should remain the world’s sole superpower. And the New York Times pointed that out only after the New York state primary (well, they glossed over the disasters part).
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead – Coming to the Philadelphia Crossroad
What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
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