Joleen Nez: A Death in Custody

By Cecelia Nowell, The Nation How racism, negligence, and a politically connected medical provider turned homelessness into a capital crime. n April 16, 2020, Officer Preston Panana walked up to Joleen Nez at the corner of Texas Street and Zuni Avenue in Albuquerque. Nez was living in a […]

Sovereign Nation States are Leftist Tyrannies

By AntiBoomerEquation Borders are Not Property, Authority is Not Indivisible. The main reason I dislike nationalism: territorialism. The process of territorialization of political demesne has been a recipe for totalitarian sovereign states. Polities do not consist of rocks and streams, they consist of persons. There is no such […]

Why We Can Do It

By Michael Shellenberger Don’t believe the hype: the future is bright. The success of Environmental Progress in winning hearts and changing minds proves it. Now watch what happens next. Not that long ago ago it appeared that most of the trends relating to the issues that Environmental Progress […]

3 cheers for the pig man

By Noah Millan, The Week It may not always feel like it, but we live in an age of miracles. The most recent: the first successful transplant of a heart from a non-human mammal to a human being. This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working […]

Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again

By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]

Latin America’s Left Turn

The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]

Workforce changes will continue to affect economy: ‘Power has shifted and it has shifted to labor,’ Richmond Fed president says

By John Reid Blackwell  Richmond Times-Dispatch The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the job market seems likely to have long-lasting affects on the U.S. economy, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said Thursday. “We have been living for decades in a world of excess workers, driven […]