The Lessons Richard Bowen’s FCIC Testimony Should Have Taught the Nation
Stop and consider how devastating these observations are for neo-classical dogmas about market choice, private market discipline, and efficient markets.
Policy Essay
Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century
The report acknowledges that limiting global temperatures to 1.5℃ this century is now extremely difficult. Achieving net-zero global emissions by 2050 is the absolute minimum required to to avoid the worst climate impacts.
Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity
So join me in this struggle, it’s my final plea. I’ll die trying if I have to, for this better future is within reach, and it’s yearning to be set free.
Reconstructing the Algebra of Race and Rights
Raul Carrillo argues for permanent, non-discretionary funding of income, healthcare, housing, education, employment for all.
They Don’t Work To Kill All Dissent, They Just Keep It From Going Mainstream
If we can wake up a critical mass of people to the fact that they live in a profoundly unfree society disguised by propaganda, we’ll have the numbers.
Create a Legacy with Medicare For All!
Otherwise, Joe Biden risks his legacy being the president who allows someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene to pick up where Trump left off!
Four Purposes of Federal Taxes
Beardsley Ruml wrote in 1946 that taxes for revenue are obsolete. So what ARE they for?
UBI and Immigrants: Lessons from the Pandemic
Most think of the UBI from a national perspective but comparatively little thought has gone into the global perspective.
Considering and Critiquing Universal Basic Income: Introduction
UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision.