Landlord-Leaning Eviction Courts are About to Make the Coronavirus Housing Crisis a Lot Worse
Without changes, Americans may experience a level of economic instability and homelessness not seen since the Great Depression.
Current Events
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Their Numbers Have Soared, and Their Polling Places Have Dwindled.
The clogged polling locations in metro Atlanta reflect an underlying pattern: the number of places to vote has shrunk statewide, with little recourse.
John Johnson isn’t dead: How claims of voter fraud in Florida fell apart
As the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice has exhaustively concluded, voter fraud in America is exceedingly rare.. Yet PILF has been unrelenting in its campaign to prove voter fraud.
‘All You Want Is to Be Believed’: The Impacts of Unconscious Bias in Health Care
Research shows how doctors’ unconscious bias affects the care people receive, with Latino and Black patients being less likely to receive pain medications or get referred for advanced care than white patients with the same complaints or symptoms
#NormalizeWetAssPussy, or How Art Changes Culture
It’s 2020 and like everyone else, I want to talk about Wet Ass Pussy. But, since I don’t have a pussy myself, I just wanted to read some feedback on how the song may affect our culture.
In Florida, the Gutting of a Landmark Law Leaves Few Felons Likely to Vote
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Nearly two years after Florida voters approved a landmark constitutional amendment allowing felons to vote, state officials don’t know how many have registered. They also don’t know how many felons on the …
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How and when will we know that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective?
It is likely that not just one but several of the competing COVID-19 vaccines will be shown to be safe and effective by the end of 2020.
Warren Mosler’s Crisis Management Proposal
These were my proposals back in March. Now, with 20-20 hindsight, and some 8 months on, seems I wouldn’t change a thing…
Exploitation Entrepreneurialism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit is an essential read not just for anyone interested in racism, housing segregation and post-Civil Rights era racial politics, but for anyone interested in understanding the American economy. It is impossible to understand contracts, property deeds, government guarantees, homeowner’s associations, or lending without knowing how each of these building blocks of the market can be used for race-based exploitation.