On this weekās episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on Medicare advantage and “pre-authorization” as a way to reduce Medicare…
After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer classāthe capitalistsāfaced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On the domestic side,…
Trump, Musk, and the billionaires are trying to privatize the Post Office among several other government services. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard…
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For…
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social…
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.ās anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and…
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic…
Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the worldās U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a…
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long…
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions, infrastructure problems,…
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