Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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The U.S. Can Go Big on Infrastructure Spending If It Drops Its Fear of Deficits
Should Biden wish to be remembered as the next iteration of FDR, he’ll need to reject old ways of thinking about spending and embrace Modern Monetary Theory, putting forth a plan that’s just as, if not more ambitious than, the original New Deal.
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Why Football Is One Capitalist Product the Fat Cat Billionaires Will Never Fully Control
Football, by far the most popular sport in the world, occupies a strange but interesting place in how we understand contemporary capitalism – as the recent Super League debacle revealed.
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Post-Brexit Scrapping of Erasmus Student Exchange Harms Economy and Undermines UK Relations with Europe
Britain’s abrupt departure from the programme marks the depressing demise of multi-ethnic, all-inclusive relations with Europe – and demonstrates the “Little Englander” mentality that has gripped the country since the EU referendum in 2016.
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UK’s 5-day Hiatus from Christmas Lockdown May Pave the Way for Ill-Fated New Year for Britain's Poorest
The government’s scientific advisory group has warned that the easing of restrictions over the holiday period could cause an increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases.
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‘Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won’t be missed,’ says Sanders as billionaire education secretary attacks push for tuition-free college
“What do you call a billionaire who registered a $40 million, 164-foot yacht in the Cayman Islands to avoid $2.4 million in U.S. taxes, while undermining public schools? The worst Education Secretary in the history of America.”
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The ‘Great Reset’ is both a neoliberal fantasy and a right wing conspiracy theory
So many ordinary people choose to believe in grotesque conspiracy theories and often blame others rather than the deeply flawed free market system.
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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
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Green New Deal, Part VI: End Corporate Welfare Before It Kills Us
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
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Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
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Britain's Covid-19 Economic Recovery: Looking Beyond Austerity and Johnson’s ‘Big Gesture’ Politics
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.