Campbell Brown: The New Leader of the Propaganda Arm of School Privatization
How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
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Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
Read more...Oxfam Report on Rent Seeking Among the Top Wealthy Reinforces Neoliberal Shibboleths
A well-meaning effort to analyze rent-seeking goes off the rails.
Read more...The Global War on Drugs Has Unleashed an International Health Crisis, Says Top Health Panel
A study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Lancet has effectively pronounced the war on drugs to be a failure.
Read more...How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business
How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
Read more...Michael Pettis: Trump and the Re-Emergence of the Jacksonians
Why Trump represents a recurring set of grievances in American politics, and elites are making a mistake in dismissing them.
Read more...Income Inequality and Income Mobility: New Evidence from OECD Nations
Some economists argue that income inequality suggests intra-generational mobility in society. This column provides comprehensive evidence across a large number of advanced economies on the importance of intra-generational mobility and its relationship with earnings inequality. The findings do not support the belief that higher earnings inequality necessarily goes hand-in-hand with greater mobility over the working life. Higher inequalities are not systematically compensated by higher mobility opportunities.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl?
How should we view Zero Dark Thirty versus other technically esteemed films with unsavory content like Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will?
Read more...The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...How the Cutthroat Walmart Business Model Is Reshaping American Public Education
Walmart has played a huge role in promoting and funding the charter school movement and plans to expand much further.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...Flint’s Water Crisis: A Chronicle of Disenfranchisement, Denial, and Buck-Passing
A must-see documentary on Flint’s water crisis.
Read more...National Poll Finds Bipartisan Suport for Serious Regulation of Charter Schools
The public is dissatisfied with charter schools and wants curbs put on them.
Read more...Merkel in Jeopardy: Germany’s European Hegemony, Refugees and Upcoming Elections
The inexorable political decline of Angela Merkel as well as her traditional opponents, the Social Democrats, is gathering pace.
Read more...James Galbraith: The Friedman v. Romers Growth Debate on the Sanders Plan – A Summing Up
How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
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