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Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Stiglitz: How can something that our political leaders – and many an economist – said would make everyone better off be so reviled? The rules of the game now need to be changed, with measures to tame globalization.
Having spent the last week in Athens talking to ordinary citizens, young and old, as well as current and past officials, I’ve come to the view that this is about far more than just Greece and the euro.
A yes vote would mean depression almost without end – by contrast, a no vote would at least open the possibility that Greece, with its strong democratic tradition, might grasp its destiny in its own hands.
If big pharmaceutical companies hold sway, the TPP could block cheaper generic drugs from the market – causing big Pharma’s profits to rise at the expense of the health of patients and the budgets of consumers and governments.
The U.S. is gradually, and painfully, struggling to come to terms with certain contradictions about the enormity of inequalities marking our society.
Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.
Americans are coming to realize that their cherished narrative of social and economic mobility is a myth.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
Republicans’ fate in the 2026 midterms is likely sealed. But they could be out of power for multiple subsequent election cycles if Democrats are smart.
In November, Indigenous protests in London included the launch of “Bringing It All Back Home,” confronting corporate power head-on.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
Republicans’ fate in the 2026 midterms is likely sealed. But they could be out of power for multiple subsequent election cycles if Democrats are smart.
In November, Indigenous protests in London included the launch of “Bringing It All Back Home,” confronting corporate power head-on.
Republicans’ fate in the 2026 midterms is likely sealed. But they could be out of power for multiple subsequent election cycles if Democrats are smart.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”