Galbraith on the Sanders agenda
James K. Galbraith provides this detailed analysis of Bernie Sanders’ agenda and its feasibility.
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Whose good economy?
Stable Genius Trump likes to brag about the stock market, but that is not a good measure of how well the economy is doing. Joseph Stiglitz explains that Trump deserves a failing grade on economic matters.
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Bipartisan Myths
Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein write about five myths about bipartisanship. You probably subscribe to some of them.
Motley Fools
One would think that anyone who makes their living writing about money and finances would know all about those subjects. And one would be wrong. Today’s exhibit: The Motley Fool I admit that the Fool has lots of good advice about money and finances, but they appear to be quite ignorant when it comes to
Naivete or incompetence?
This article is a scathing indictment of Chuck Todd’s malpractice on NBC and “Meet the Press”. But if there’s only one passage you take with you, I suggest this one: In reality [Kellyanne Conway] had made a grave announcement. The nature of the Trump government would be propagandistic. And as as Garry Kasparov observes for
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Can our republic be saved?
Yes, we can impeach the President, but will that be enough. Dana Milbank describes our bleak reality.
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Free speech?
The Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the First Amendment, sometimes seems cavalier about the First Amendment.
The End of Neoliberalism? We can only hope.
Joseph Stiglitz on ending neoliberalism: “Neoliberalism has undermined democracy for 40 years. … Neoliberalism will literally bring an end to our civilization.”
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The Next Great Transformation
What will it take to address the two existential challenges – climate change and nuclear weapons – that threaten the survival of the human race? It starts with new thinking in economics and undoing the financialization of the world economy. James Galbraith explains.
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Inside China’s Gulags
This story from Haaretz, an insider’s account of the crimes being committed inside China’s reeducation camps, is not easy to read, but please do read it. The Chinese government calls it a fabrication. I don’t believe the Chinese government.
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The insanity of austerity
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins write about the insanity of austerity. Calling it “insanity” is somewhat misleading. Austerity is accomplishing exactly what it was designed to do – consolidate wealth and power in the hands of the few with no regard whatsoever for anyone else. It’s class warfare, pure and simple, but most of those
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White students burn a book about white privilege
It happened at Georgia Southern University. To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.
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Captain America nails it!
I’ll admit that I suffer from superhero fatigue. I’ve enjoyed some of their movies – Christopher Reeve’s Superman movies, for example. Lately, though, it’s just one “existential” crisis after another, with no resolution of much of anything, the better to justify yet another sequel. Superheroes keep proliferating like insects, their super powers seem to increase
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PG&E shuts off power in California
Welcome to the USA, an exceptional third-world country!
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Protect the whistleblowers!
As this article points out, Obama was no friend to whistleblowers. But Obama is no longer President, and our current one poses a clear and present danger to our democracy.
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Disinformation proliferation
It’s bad enough that many countries run disinformation campaigns. When the leader of the most powerful nation in the world actively disinforms, how can we effectively fight the problem?
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Looking back at the Snowden revelations
Matthew Green looks back at the lessons we learned from Edward Snowden. Although we’ve made progress since then in securing and defending our data, no officials have been held accountable for government misdeeds, and other distractions threaten to divert our attention elsewhere.
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
In People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, Joseph Stiglitz proposes ways to overcome forty years of neoliberal rot that have infected our economics and our politics. This country has overcome extreme inequality in the past, and we must do so again now, or our children will face a much
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I can’t feel my heart
My country psychologically tortures children, and our President doesn’t give one nanodamn about it.
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The Kansas Experiment
Conor Lynch of The Week posted an editorial on https://theweek.com/articles/861385/trump-taken-gops-kansas-experiment-national–predictable-results
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