Automation, climate change and Donald Trump: What kind of future are we in for?
Author Peter Frase combines science fiction and Marxist theory to imagine possible outcomes, for better and for worse.
Trump’s treasury pick is a Goldman Sachs banker who foreclosed on tens of thousands
Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice to head the US Treasury, has a dark past working with Goldman Sachs and later heading OneWest Bank, which foreclosed the homes of thousands of Americans after 2008.
The mafia state
America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
At best international rankings are a distraction – but basing policies on the rankings while ignoring the more important evidence these international surveys present is unlikely to address the key issue of inequity in our system.
What the robots are doing to the middle class
We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.
The election from hell has ended; now America’s nightmare begins
The American people are going to be living in a period in this nation’s history that will determine what kind of a nation and society this will be.
Mike Pence sees a ‘real opportunity’ to gut health care for poor people
Trump’s White House will likely go along with efforts to block grant Medicaid.
The Gettysburg Address, slightly updated
Now we are engaged in a great democratic battle, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can tolerate four years of Trumpery.
Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is what neo-fascism looks like
"I think he’s already betrayed working people in terms of making sure, in his view, that Wall Street is in the driver’s seat."
Activists to retailers: Shoppers need to know who’s making the clothes
Advocates for garment workers think that people will avoid buying clothing they know was made in a sweatshop.