Category: Politics

People cheering for companies who have censored content in recent weeks may soon find the same tactic used against causes they love. Cindy Cohn writes.

When economists are regularly rewarded for being unimaginative yes men and getting wrong everything important, why should we expect them to improve? Dean Baker writes.

Dean Baker considers how the Federal Reserve can help to fight racism.

A. E. Elliott considers how to wake up and be a leftist.

The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalizers of social and political struggle. Janey Stephenson writes.

Why has neither political party in the United States talked about limits on intellectual property? Money. Dean Baker writes.

The Seattle Star’s endorsements for the August primary.

One person’s experience becoming a business owner shows how our economy is based on luck rather than merit and how it rewards people who own stuff rather than people who do stuff. Karl Widerquist writes.

Apparently, Seattle’s political establishment has anointed yet another Sidranist mayoral candidate. Jeff Stevens opines.

Notes on the struggle to keep the US government from going back on its promises of greater transparency. John Wonderlich writes.