Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett write about the psychological and social harms arising out of inequality: Members of species that have strong…
Greg Fingas
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gary Younge examines how Jeremy Corbyn and an unabashedly progressive campaign platform are making massive gains in a UK general election cynically called…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Sun-soaked cats.
Leadership 2017 Candidate Profile: Jagmeet Singh
As I noted here, Jagmeet Singh’s entry into the federal NDP’s leadership race has attracted an enviable amount of notice from the media. But the combination of a relatively late…
Leadership 2017 Candidate Profile – Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury
I’ll plan to add more to Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury’s profile later on if he adds more public-facing content to his campaign. For now, though, I’ll put forward at least a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Krugman criticizes the use of non-compete agreements to trap workers at low wage levels with no opportunity to pursue comparable employment –…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Josh Bivens notes that U.S. corporations are already paying a lower share of taxes than has historically been the case – meaning…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign… – I’ll start by specifically pointing out NDPLeaderVote as an excellent resource for news as it develops. Because it’s largely tracking what’s…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dalia Marin argues that in order to avoid corporate dominance over citizens and workers around the globe, we should be developing international competition…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Maureen Conway and Mark Popovich argue that something has gone severely wrong if (as seems to be the case) Wall Street is treating…
Musical interlude
Radical Face – Holy Branches
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Owen Jones discusses UK Labour’s true social democratic platform as a model for progressive parties around the globe. And Simon Wren-Lewis points…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Binyamin Appelbaum highlights the strong consensus view that Donald Trump’s planned tax giveaways to the rich will do nothing for overall economic development.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Upturned cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the growing opposition to a Lib infrastructure bank designed to turn public needs into private profits at our…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Barbara Ellen questions the positive spin the right tries to put on poverty and precarity, and writes that we’re all worse off…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Claire Provost writes about the spread of the private security industry – which now exceeds the size of public police forces in Canada…
Musical interlude
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.