Hidden Distress Among Well-Off Women in America
Why have lifespans flattened among middle and upper middle class women?
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Bill Black: Why the Republicans Cannot “Replace” Obamacare
Why the Republicans will kill Obamacare or have to live with it in more or less its present form.
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not: Right to Repair Laws on Agenda in Some States
Right to repair laws are back on the agenda in five states. These measures would reduce costs and waste, and promote local repair services.
Read more...Do Corporate Democrats Like Charles Schumer Belong in a Progressive Movement Against Trump?
Trump has wasted no time in implementing campaign pledges. How closely should progressives work with corporate Democrats?
Read more...Trumping Capitalism?
Will Trump change capitalism, and if so, how?
Read more...Trade War Threat Grows
Will Trump bumble his way into a trade war?
Read more...James F on Hatred in Our Divided Nation: Anger at Flyover Country
Immigration, free trade, and automation have made Flyover Country people redundant but they’re not going away fast enough for urban elites.
Read more...Bill Black: Not 4 Sale – Why the Corrupt, Worker-Hating New Democrats Must Be Purged
Why the corporate and finance funded, labor-loathing New Democrats have been a disaster for the party and America and need to go.
Read more...Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis
The elites think they can hide from the pending collapse of civilization.
Read more...The Obama Administration Bails Out Private Equity Landlords at the Expense of the Middle Class: Government Guarantees for Rental Securitization
So how much did Blackstone promise to give to the Obama library for this huge grift, um, parting gift? As regular readers may recall, private equity firms piled into buying foreclosed single family homes on the belief that if the government (in this case, Fannie and Freddie) was selling, they wanted to be buying. And […]
Read more...How the Media Continues To Aid Trump
The media overinvests in covering Trump’s antics at the expense of his corporate-friendly policies.
Read more...America’s Coming Water Affordability Crisis
A symptom of pressure on water quality and supply: over 40 million American citizens may be unable to afford water in the next five years.
Read more...Consternation as Trump Starts Delivering on Campaign Promises While Making More Crazy Attacks on Critics
As with his campaign, the Trump Presidency is loutish, thin-skinned and thinly staffed, disorderly….and taking ground.
Read more...BluecollarAl on Our Divided Nation
Our nation seems more divided than ever. And that isn’t an accident.
Read more...re: F@ck Work?
Why the Job Guarantee versus Universal Basic Income is not about work, but about governance.
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