Is the populist fever breaking?
Populism, particularly the right-wing variety, has had a good run lately. Liberal democracy has been... The post Is the populist fever breaking? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
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Perilous Populism
We live in a time replete with constant reminders that having and maintaining a healthy democracy requires hard work, work predicated on knowledge, analysis and citizen involvement. Unfortunately, it is…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week.- Greg Sargent highlights how Donald Trump's pretense of concern for working-class people has given way to the largest transfer of wealth to plutocrats in…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Moscrop writes that "inequality" is a far too mild word for the extreme concentration of wealth and power in the U.S. (coupled…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt discuss how the Trump regime has used the power of an authoritarian state to impose costs…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Amanda Marcotte discusses how the Trump regime's war on empathy reflects its underlying misogyny, while Andrea Woo reports that Canadian researchers are scrubbing their…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Eric Holthaus warns that the escalation of temperatures in 2024 threatens to lay the groundwork for much worse to come. And Virgina Iglesias…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Iris Gorfinkel rightly asks why Doug Ford (among other politicians) doesn't want people to know if they have COVID-19 when that knowledge would…
Good news from India
Having just posted bad news about democracy, specifically the loss of Hong Kong to Xi Jinping’s autocracy, I read some good news. In India’s recent election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Neoliberalism’s failure—Americans agree on something
If I should ask what the most prominent single feature of American politics is today, I suspect most would say it’s polarization, perhaps dangerous polarization. I would agree. It was…
The High Price Of Populism
In this age of economic deprivation for so many, it is understandable that people seek relief wherever they can find it. Some do without, some shop at discount stores, some…
Defeat The Fascists! Unite The People Now!
The anti-authoritarian grassroots left and right are uniting – at last, as I’ve been urging for decades; and which is absolutely necessary, if we are to halt and reverse our…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Stone discusses what’s still a limited state of knowledge around long COVID even as it continues to strike – and cause devastating…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on Greta Thunberg’s warning that a failure to stop burning fossil fuels amounts to a death sentence for people living…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the CCPA’s new research showing how an increasing number of jobs in British Columbia are precarious – with already-disadvantaged…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected…
Is It Time For The NDP To Rebirth Itself
The North American right wing has been overtaken by a vile hateful Donald Trump inspired populist MAGA movement that has spawned the Freedumb Convoy types and infected the Canadian Conservative…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tisse Wijeratne et al. discuss what we know – and have yet to discover – about long COVID’s effects on our brains three…
Left, Right or Centre – Explainer
In today’s age of populism, with ideology apparently dead, how do you now if you are on the left or right or in the centre. There are indeed some basic…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK has become a failing state which lacks the capacity to provide either basic public services or…