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healthcare, Labor movement, Politics
Nursing Homes: Understaffing and Neglect
In both the United States and Canada, understaffing at nursing homes for the elderly leads to gross neglect of helpless patients. Why?
Humanity on a Cross of Iron
A surge is underway in military spending and arms sales, fueled by the war in Ukraine and the confrontation over Taiwan. Global demand for advanced weaponry is ...
Book Review, Economics, healthcare
What Are Hospitals For?
Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...
Ukraine: Nationalists at War
Radical nationalists, including fascists and Nazis, play a significant role in the war in Ukraine and an even more significant role in the propaganda war. Putin justifies his attack on Ukraine as a crusade to ‘de-Nazify’ the country, while some pro-Ukrainian propagandists describe the Putin regime as fascist.
Book Review, Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Technology, Work
Automation: An Open Letter to Andrew Yang
Dear Andrew Yang I followed with interest your campaign as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primaries. You are widely known for advocating Universal Basic ...
Gambling Till You Drop
Natasha Dow Schull, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press, 2012). This is a book about gambling machines. Gambling machines are everywhere. They occupy most ...
Many Ukrainians Do Not Want To Fight!
Ukrainian nationalist propaganda, reproduced in the Western corporate media, projects an image of Ukrainians as a nation united in armed resistance to Russian aggression. However, many ordinary ...
Calhoun Correctional Institution: A Gladiator School
Calhoun Correctional Institution is one of fifty major prisons operated by the Florida Department of Corrections, the state’s largest agency. It is in Blountstown, Calhoun County in ...
War in Ukraine — Debate in Germany
On May 6 The Guardian carried an article about two open letters addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz that had been published in the German press at the beginning of ...
