In the initial Gilded Age, the courts took the 14th Amendment, tore it up as it applied to African-Americans, and created entirely new and unintended meanings for it as it applied to corporations, sta
Until this nation gets over its belief that corporations are fundamentally good, we will never solve our national problems. At this point, the corporations aren’t even trying to hide their insat
Scott referred to the Deadspin disaster earlier today. To me, this and so many other closings of quality publications leads to a broader question of whether journaistic outlets can even exist under th
Of course the vultures are ready to profit big-time off our national program of ethnic cleansing. Six high-ranking employees at a nonprofit organization housing thousands of migrant children for the f
I’m in Mexico City for the month. Because of the problems of Mexico generally, lots of people forget that Mexico City is a genuinely world class city. Among the many things it has going for it i
Building on yesterday’s post about how despite the low unemployment numbers, people’s lived economy is basically terrible, Jacob Hacker has a very useful op-ed in the Times on the same iss
Most every “rule” in economics is half-baked and this whole Vox article about why rising productivity hasn’t led to rising wages is an example of the problem. It notes: This is not t
Higher education in the 21st century, especially at elite institution, is basically a hedge fund operation, building up enormous endowments while not spending any of it on anything that doesn’t