Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Noah Berlatsky writes about the dangers of treating the existence of marginalized groups - rather than the bigots seeking to dehumanize them - as…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Hamilton Nolan discusses how the Trump regime is going far out of its way to build the U.S.' economy on scams and corruption.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Alexis Okeowo reports on the plight of women who bravely spoke out in the course of the #metoo movement, only to be shunned as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Krugman discusses how toxic masculinity is being used by the oil and gas sector to keep people addicted to dirty fossil fuels. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Julia Steinberger writes about the necropolitics surrounding the climate breakdown - as fossil fuel interests have declared our lives forfeit, and our scope…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Charlie Angus comments on the futility of giving up substantial interests in the hope that a new trade deal with the Trump regime…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Mike Palecek discusses how the Trump regime's tariff chaos isn't aimed merely at conducting trade wars against other countries, but also serves to destabilize…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jason Furman discusses how Donald Trump's economic obsessions are in fundamental conflict with one another - meaning that the only result of trying to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher discuss how the Trump regime is using the power of the state to attack any opposition voices and…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Randi Weingarten calls out Elon Musk for robbing workers to pay for tax giveaways to the billionaire class. And Sharon Kelly traces the Trump…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Scott Stinson writes that there's no reasonable explanation for Donald Trump's constantly-shifting position on tariffs, while Greg Sargent discusses the growing body of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Scott Vrooman rightly makes the point that increased wealth at the top tends to splash outside a country's borders rather than trickling down.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jared Bernstein is hopeful that the era of expansive corporate rights agreements is coming to an end. Paul Krugman notes that there's no evidence…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Alice Martin offers three basic reasons why unions are as necessary now as ever, while PressProgress weighs in on the IMF's findings showing…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Robert Atkinson discusses the need for corporate tax policy to encourage economic development rather than profit-taking and share inflation. And Jim Hightower notes that…
Modest proposals for our defence policy
The federal government has promised to develop a new defence strategy for the country and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has confirmed the public will be asked to participate. I thought,…
On rigged outcomes
I’m not sure when “what would Michael Ignatieff do?” became the Libs’ operating mantra. But as long as the subject of fighter procurement is on the table, let’s highlight the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephen Marche discusses the Cons’ ongoing efforts to make Canada a more closed and ignorant country: Mr. Harper’s campaign for re-election has so…