Skip to main content

Science and Politics

Hilary Rose, Steven Rose and Katherine L. Bryant Monthly Review
I think one’s got to look not at the technofix—you’ve got to look at the transformation of the way in which all of us live and ask how you move toward that in a time of gross inequality within and between nations.

Starve the Beast, Feed the Depression

Paul Krugman The New York Times
“Starve the beast” — forcing governments to cut services by depriving them of resources — has been Republican strategy for decades. This is just more of the same.

books

White Enough? Race in America

Ayesha Ramachandran Los Angeles Review of Books
This book on modern immigration explores the complex relationship South Asian migrants to the U.S. have with the always contested notion of "whiteness."

Why So Few Young Americans Vote

John Holbein The Conversation
In the 2016 general election a full three out of four of Americans between the age of 18 and 29 said they were interested in politics.

Trump's Travel Ban Skips Over His Golf Courses

Ryan Heath Politico
The United Kingdom, which is home to Trump Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links, and Ireland, which is home to another Trump-branded hotel and golf course at Doonbeg, are exempted from the European travel ban

Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say

Heather Vogell and Katherine Sullivan ProPublica
Two former city employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told ProPublica and WNYC that they accepted money from middlemen representing the Trump Organization to lower assessments on 40 Wall St. after Trump took over the skyscraper in 1995
Subscribe to Politics