Structuring the Economy To Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
Policies that give more money to people at the top are inflationary. If we want to help the working class we have to pursue policies that reverse upward redistribution, not promise the return of manufacturing jobs that no longer offer a wage premium.

The Never-Ending War on the Woke

Alex Pareene The Forum
For my entire life, white moderates have been complaining about how difficult the people on the side of multiracial democracy are making it for them to win their idealized suburban voters.

Friday Nite Videos | July 22, 2021

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"The Committee Telling Josh Hawley To Go F Himself." This Tech May Be a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough. Bernie Sanders: This Is an Existential Threat. Hallelujah: A Journey, A Song. The 60,000 Year Old Artefact Rewriting Neanderthal History.

Hollow Men: All the Cowards of Jan. 6

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Much of the Republican Party has been reduced to quivering protoplasm, whimpering under the lash of Trump’s whiny invective.

Where Is the Supreme Court’s “Ordered Liberty” Going?

Stephanie Guilloud Truthout
The abortion ban map is a Southern map. The Supreme Court's 'ordered liberty' judicial vision is rooted there too. But the South is also the birthplace of the Freedom Movement and emancipatory visions.

This Tech May Be a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough

Geothermal energy has the potential to power the world. A gyrotron heat ray that melts rock (this is real!) might unlock this potential and make it a better renewable energy source than solar and wind.