How Bill Gates and His Billionaire Allies Used Their Wealth to Launch Charter Schools in Washington State
The Gates charter school push as a case study in the Trojan Horse of “charitable plutocracy”.
Read more...The Gates charter school push as a case study in the Trojan Horse of “charitable plutocracy”.
Read more...Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...The implications of Clinton’s rising unfavorable ratings.
Read more...“Liberal” economists still embrace the dominant pseudo-Keynesian orthodoxy despite its failure in the financial crisis and its role in increasing inequality.
Read more...A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...How do these people live with themselves.
Read more...The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
Read more...Yves here. I’m leery of reinforcing the “competitiveness” meme, since it’s based on the false premise that all countries can be exporters. But this article nevertheless makes important observations about Eurozone structural flaws.
Read more...Independents are key to winning the general election, particularly for the Democrats, And they are not moderate Republicans; they are now pretty radical.
Read more...A hopeful account and some lessons about inequality from Chelsea. But can we really generalize from this case?
Read more...Why aren’t all segments of the labor market equally crapified?
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