Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sonya Angell examines the connection between extreme weather events caused by the climate breakdown and adverse health effects, while noting that there's a…
Elizabeth Warren
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jeff Spross discusses the effectiveness of a wealth tax both in generating revenue, and in reducing inequality. David Leonhardt notes that a wealth…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Paul Krugman writes that complaints by the U.S.’ wealthiest few about Elizabeth Warren reflect their insistence that extreme wealth be coupled with absolute…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emily Stewart reports on Elizabeth Warren’s message about the need to end corruption and corporatism in order to make U.S. politics work for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh discusses the reality as to how economic decisions are made – and how we’ve allowed corporate control to remain in…
Wednesday Morning Links
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith writes about the unfairness and inaccuracy in blaming people for finding themselves in poverty. And Sarah Kaine and Emmanuel Josserand…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellanous material for your mid-week reading. – David Dayen interviews Elizabeth Warren about the role of government in ensuring that the needs of people take precedence over the power of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nick Hanauer discusses the futility of “educationism” which treats schools as the only factor in social outcomes without recognizing the importance of inequality…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eoin Higgins discusses a new report by Elizabeth Warren and Pramila Jayapal on a U.S. political system which is even more corporatist…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Shawn Gude comments on the choice Democratic primary voters will have between candidates seeking to regulate the economic system as it stands,…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the U.S.’ long-overdue conversation about progressive taxes on extreme incomes and wealth – and the need for Canada to follow suit. For further reading…– Matthew Yglesias…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Doreen Nicoll makes the case to reinstate the basic income plan eliminated by Doug Ford in Ontario. Danielle Kurtz examines a few of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trevor Tombe highlights how equalization actually works – and how the bleatings of Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and other demagogues would serve only…
New column day
Here, looking to the work of Elizabeth Warren and the Institute for Public Policy Research for options in making our economy more responsive to the needs of the public. For…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mike Konczal notes that a single-minded focus on shareholder wealth – exemplified by today’s obsession with stock buybacks – has frozen workers…
Elizabeth Warren Eviscerates Wells Fargo CEO
The world may need more Canada, but it also needs more Elizabeth Warren. A tireless defender of the unrepresented, i.e., the majority of Americans, the Democratic Senator, as you will…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Norman Farrell highlights how following the reversal of the HST transition, B.C. businesses haven't given up on their goal of making sure that only…
Elizabeth Warren On The Trans Pacific Partnership
Recently, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a woman I much admire, released a five-minute video that takes aim at the Trans Pacific Partnership, specifically denouncing the Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions…
Hillary Clinton will return to Ohio on Monday with Elizabeth Warren in tow.
Hillary Clinton will return to Ohio on Monday with Elizabeth Warren in tow. As Democrats sharpen their general election argument against Donald Trump, it will be their first joint appearance…