Letters From the June 29/July 6, 2020, Issue: Labor
Agonistes… No act of altruism…etc.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-june-29-july-6-2020-issue/
How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right: The
brutality of sacrificing human beings to keep meat aisles well stocked might be
a turning point in the debate over the future of beef.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/beef-red-pill-right/
But Where Can We Shelter?
A new book examines the deep roots of the United States’ housing crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-deep-roots-of-our-current-housing-crisis/
Ask an economist: Debt and deficits during the pandemic
Building an Economy That Works Again: A practical
blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown
https://newrepublic.com/article/157591/rebuild-economy-coronavirus-intellectual-property-reform
How Zoom Colonized Our Lives: Our digital dependency has
created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.
https://newrepublic.com/article/157553/zoom-colonized-lives
We can make surveillance work for us: Technologies that
threaten our autonomy also offer opportunities to build a more humane world. We
need a new social compact to manage them.
Thomas Piketty’s Plan to Fix the Economy: His new book
diagnoses a society obsessed with property rights.
https://newrepublic.com/article/157576/thomas-piketty-new-book-plan-fix-economy-review
Don’t Just Save the Postal Service. Reinvent It. The USPS could be the government at its best,
if politicians gave it a chance.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158080/dont-just-save-postal-service-reinvent-it
The Lost Rebellious Spirit of Keynes: The economist’s
ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more
radical than that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158070/john-maynard-keynes-biography-review-lost-rebellious-spirit
A perfect fiscal storm of revenue shortfalls for cities
and towns: The budget crisis will hit big due to the coronavirus when a new
fiscal year begins July 1.
Dispatches: IT’S OFFICIALLY A RECESSION, BUT JOB GAINS
MEAN REPUBLICANS ARE UNLIKELY TO CONTINUE ASSISTANCE FOR JOBLESS AND SMALL
BUSINESSES, etc.
https://www.populist.com/26.12.dispatches.html
TOM CONWAY – America’s Infrastructure Crisis
https://lesliemarshallshow.com/tom-conway-americas-infrastructure-crisis/
Workers Need a Refuge
https://www.populist.com/26.12.atkins.html
Mythonomics: Ten Economic Myths that Demonstrate
America’s Decline
https://www.populist.com/26.12.joseph.html
The Real Villain in Bankruptcies: Private Equity
https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/the-real-villain-in-bankruptcies-private-equity/
Sovereign Money Could Spread the Prosperity Around
https://www.populist.com/26.12.anderson.html
The Pandemic and Capitalism: Will we learn from this crisis that our
present precarity capitalism must be brought to an end?
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/the-pandemic-and-capitalism/
The Fed is buying some of the biggest companies’ bonds,
raising questions over why
Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing: How The
Death Spiral of a Rich Society Begins With Austerity, and Ends With Poverty,
Despair, and Collapse
https://eand.co/why-american-and-britain-are-self-destructing-a8693ebb097
Sgt. James Brown survived two tours in Iraq only to die
mysteriously in Texas jail shouting ‘I can’t breathe’
John Lewis: Good Trouble - Official Trailer
AskProfWolff: How the Fed Serves Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reHa7VVnhT8
A rare case of brain-destroying amoeba has been confirmed
in Florida
The Second Great Depression: At least four major factors
are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/second-great-depression/613360/
How to Manage the Emotional Impact of Getting Laid Off:
Stop spirals before they start.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/smarter-living/coronavirus-laid-off-career-advice.html
Letters From the July 13/20, 2020, Issue: A gamble worth
taking… Protect old Joe?… A terrible precedent…
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-july-13-20-2020-issue/
Brace Yourself for Trump's Great Recession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnkgLHzHb0
Can restaurants survive the pandemic? Dining out is a
national pastime, but it has become a casualty of the pandemic. Can eateries
survive? Here's everything you need to know:
https://theweek.com/articles/923252/restaurants-survive-pandemic
Monopoly Mayhem: Corporations Win, Workers Lose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyvjvZO5Ls
Scientists link bowel inflammation to higher risk of
dementia: Study is latest to find high degree of correlation between gut health
and mental health
The obstacle course on the road to recovery
The Church of Latter-Day Socialists: These Mormons are
taking the church back to its socialist roots.
Are public colleges finished?
https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/are-public-colleges-finished/
Diary of a Letter Carrier
https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/diary-of-a-letter-carrier/
Introducing the Best Hospitals for America: Here are the
institutions that save lives, save money, and serve social justice.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/introducing-the-best-hospitals-for-america/
A Note From Our Partner, the Lown Institute: Here’s how
they developed their rankings.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/a-note-from-our-partner-the-lown-institute/
How We Calculated the Best Hospitals for America: A note
on methodology.
Why Hospitals Keep Their Prices Secret: They don’t want
you to know what the other guy is paying.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/why-hospitals-keep-their-prices-secret/
Elite Hospitals Have an Epidemic of Greed: How the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and “charitable” hospital systems like
it put making money ahead of service to the public.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/elite-hospitals-have-an-epidemic-of-greed/
A Hospital Ranking That Makes Sense: Inside the
Washington Monthly’s 10-year effort to redefine what “best” means in
healthcare.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/a-hospital-ranking-that-makes-sense/
Capitalism’s Nine Lives: Predicting the end of the free
market system is a mug’s game, but a bigger welfare state is a pretty sure bet.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2020/capitalisms-nine-lives/
From Katrina to COVID-19: There Are Reasons Disasters
Hurt the Poor the Most. A new book shows
how policy choices have made some people more vulnerable than others.
We Keep You Alive: Unskilled labor does not exist
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-keep-you-alive-oshea
Misery Makers: The arch-goons of private equity
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/misery-makers-wimbish
An Open Letter to Leon Cooperman: We detect the rank
smell of class warfare
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/an-open-letter-to-leon-cooperman-denison
The Trolls of Academe: Scholarly misadventures on the
internet
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-trolls-of-academe-marzoni
Dinner with Schmucks
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/dinner-with-schmucks-paoletta
The Money Printers. Congress’s greatest con: “We can’t
afford it”
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-money-printers-denison
Bill of Health: How market logic hobbles the nation's
hospitals
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/bill-of-health-gaffney
If Life Feels Bleak, It’s
Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse: 2030 Will Be Even Worse than
2020. And 2040 Will Be Even Worse than That. Unless.
White House seeks to discredit Fauci amid coronavirus
surge: The White House is seeking to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s
leading infectious disease expert, as it works to marginalize him and his dire
warnings about the shortcomings in the U.S. coronavirus response.
Consumer Reports hails Supreme Court decision upholding
landmark 1991 law protecting consumers against unwanted robocalls
In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office.
Now, It’s Finally Happening. The Post
Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation
requiring it to “pay for itself.”
How covid-19 could change the financial world order | The
Economist
Why an Unemployed Veteran Memorized the US Constitution
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