There is a perfectly legal and viable solution to all this: Pack the Supreme Court. Pack it as soon as possible. Progressive policies will never happen unless the Democrats pack the Supreme … Continue reading Pack the Supreme Court

The new conservative talking point: There is a broad consensus among economists that large and persistent deficits slow economic growth by lowering savings and investment. Workers are less productive than they would … Continue reading Conservative Intellectuals Have a New and Absurd Theory for Why Wages Aren’t Rising Faster

Kavanaugh interrupted senators, raised his voice and put down Democratic senators. This raises questions about his ability to be a fair justice. You want a fair and impartial judge on the Supreme … Continue reading Brett Kavanaugh’s angry display of partisanship disqualifies him for the Supreme Court – Los Angeles Times

The social networking giant confirmed Friday that sites you use Facebook to login to could have been accessed as a result of its massive breach. Great, another example of why making Facebook … Continue reading The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook

The United States ranked sixth in the world for healthcare and education in 1990, but has since fallen behind its peers. This is partly the result of reduced and poorly allocated funds … Continue reading US ranks 27th for healthcare and education, down from sixth place in 1990

The idea that the nation state would wither away was based on three separate arguments. The first was that the barriers to the global free movement of goods, services, people and money … Continue reading The truth is that Trump has a point about globalisation

Contrary to Nielsen’s public statements, the memo made clear that this was a family separation policy. Kirstjen Nielsen is the Secretary of Homeland Security and she lied to Congress when she stated that … Continue reading Kirstjen Nielsen lied to Congress about family separation.

As participation in civic life has dwindled, so has public faith in the country’s system of government. When you don’t participate in democracy, it goes away. Source: Yoni Appelbaum: Americans Aren’t Practicing … Continue reading Americans Aren’t Practicing Democracy

BI PRIME: A new study by the JP Morgan Chase Institute indicates that the gig economy isn’t paying off for most participants. Driving to Uber just isn’t cutting it. It’s why the … Continue reading JP Morgan Chase Institute study finds the gig economy pays just $828 a month

The U.S. will cost you the most for treatment, both in absolute terms and relative to average incomes, while life expectancy of Americans — about 79 years — was exceeded by more … Continue reading The US spends more per healthcare than any country but one, yet it ranks 25th in life expectancy!

New data in a research paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests the wage-dampening effect of mass unemployment has been overtaken by the “underemployment” of the gig economy. Unemployment numbers mean … Continue reading “Underemployment”: Misleading unemployment numbers are prompting the Fed and the Bank of England to make a huge errors

Eric Schmidt predicts a bifurcation of the internet, not a splintering, as China’s tech sector grows. And of course Google will be right there helping China with this new Internet run by … Continue reading Eric Schmidt, ex-Google CEO, predicts internet split in two with China