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America Sold its Soul to Slavery. It‚Äôs Still Paying the Price. Jun 19, 2020 Save It‚Äôs Juneteenth ‚Äî the date celebrating the beginning of the end of American slavery. It‚Äôs good that there‚Äôs a widespread mass movement now to honor this date ‚Äî at long, long last. I think that if we really want to … Read more

Coronavirus is the Apocalypse American Fascism Craves It shocks and horrifies the world. America has 120,000 dead and counting of Coronavirus.That number’s going to rise to 200,000 in the blink of an eye. Where will it end? 500,000, a million — these figures are no longer the stuff of nightmares. Just of thegrim and dystopian … Read more

Jun 14, 2020 Member-only Save America’s Approach to Coronavirus is Leading to a Catastrophe on the Order of a World War The nation with theworld’s highest Coronavirus death toll— where the first wave hasn’t even plateaued or slowed yet —reopening already. Seeing new spikes across half its states. What the? America is about to show … Read more

It’s Time For Americans to Start Thinking the Unthinkable The White House turned into a fortress by a lunatic President. Protestors being gassed with chemical agents in front of it. Police beating people — old, young, black, white — in city after city. Tough guys who assault little girls for posting protest signs calling for…justice. … Read more

And it’s Almost Too Late to Stop It Jun 4, 2020 Member-only Save See that pic above? Americans woke up to soldiers and fencing surrounding the White House. An op-ed in the New York Times calling for the use of domestic military force, aka, soldiers shooting people in the streets. Major cities under curfew. A … Read more

How Coronavirus Revealed that Economics is Just Patriarchy in Equations Here we are, all stuck at home. Who’s going to school the kids today? Cook the food? Wash the dishes? Clean it all up? Who’s going to take the dog for a walk? You might not know it, but we’re all feminist economists right about … Read more

Why Economics Says America’s Collapse is Probably Irreversible Now May 22, 2020 Member-only Save A few years ago, I wrote a post called“Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse.”Sadly, I think my predictions have proven to be true — though I suppose you can judge that for yourself.90,000 dead and counting.A president who calls thedeath toll a … Read more

Why America is Heading Towards Unprecedented Catastrophe May 18, 2020 Member-only Save See that chart above?The green line towering above the rest is America’scumulative cases of Coronavirus. Now here are France’s and Italy’s: See the difference in those shapes? In France, Italy, Spain, and many other countries, cumulative cases have tailed off. This particular curve … Read more

America Isn’t Flattening the Curve, it’s Bending it Upwards — and the Results Will be Catastrophic Here are four facts and a grim conclusion, which I’ll put up front. So far as I can see, America’s one of a handful of countries in the world, thanks to a…

Why the World is Horrified by the American Idiot “Avridamah!!” shouted Matteo, from across the park. Snowy looked up at me, quizzically. It was too early for this. I grumbled, irritated. What was the Italian doctor trying to say this fine spring lockdown morning?