Friday, April 26, 2024

How rising inequality is stalling economies by crippling demand

A new agenda is needed. We have to recognize that economic growth inevitably involves economic transformation, based on innovation and technological change.

Men, we can do better

Survivors of sexual assault like Christine Blasey Ford deserve our support, not our opposition.

In Haiti, Washington meddling missed by press

Haitian and foreign readers and viewers would be so much better served if corporate media could follow the advice of its own codes of ethics.

“Revitalizing, revolutionizing and democratizing art education”: The birth of New Masters Academy

‘This is the space where I think my political and artistic lives intersect.”

A jubilee moment in pandemic America?

The poetry of a movement to change this country...

Incentive

I don’t think that the solution is to treat everyone exactly alike, because that eliminates incentives.

Elon Musk is hiding the ball again on taxes

Fanboys of the richest person on Earth are spinning bogus tales that swell the Musk fortune and embellish his ‘genius.’

The 15 Most Ridiculous Things Conservative Media Said About Climate Change In 2015

4. WSJ Op-Ed Claims Finding That Bacon Causes Cancer Is Part Of Climate Change Conspiracy.

What’s killing America’s middle class?

Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.

High school students

So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.